California: at least 8 people killed by fire on a ship

Most members of the ship's crew, called DesignHe was sleeping under the deck of the boat when the fire was declared, they said to the Los Angeles-Long Beach Coast Guard Area.

"For now, we have recovered only four bodies, but we have located four more dead at the bottom of the sea", Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown explained at a press conference.

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"Five other people were saved alive and the remaining 26 are still missing," he said.

In this way, Brown updated the figures provided by the Coast Guard a few hours earlier, which gave a record of four deaths, five survivors and at least 29 missing persons, at a time when the authorities were not able to report. were unclear as to the number of people on board. of the ship

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At the end of the day, the Coast Guard confirmed that 39 people were traveling, including six crew members and 33 pbadengers.

The boat, 23 meters long, has a capacity of 46 people and usually settles in the port of Santa Barbara for recreational diving.