Eight crew members die in shipwreck in Falkland Islands: Spanish authorities

Eight crew members whose fishing boat was shipwrecked near the Falkland Islands have died and five are missing, Spanish authorities said late Tuesday.

National authorities in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia quoted Falkland Islands maritime authorities as saying that 14 survivors of the wreck of the Argos Georgia had been found, eight bodies had been recovered and five were still missing. Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said 10 of the people on board the ship were Spanish.

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