Four dead, 15 missing as Spanish trawler sinks off Canada

[Sherman A1]

The Spanish government has said four people are dead and 15 are missing after a Spanish fishing boat sank off Canada's east coast overnight.

Rescuers saved three crew members and were continuing to search for survivors in the area off Newfoundland on Canada's Atlantic coast where the ship sank, a Spanish coastguard spokesperson said.

Twelve crew members are Spanish nationals, eight are from Peru and the rest are from Ghana, according to Spanish media reports.

"We have been informed that ... bodies have been found," Maica Larriba, the central government representative in Pontevedra in the northwestern region of Galicia where the trawler is based, told public radio.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0215/1280967-trawler-canada/