A Spanish fishing boat has sunk off Canada, leaving 10 of the crew dead and 13 missing. -AP
Sea rescue services from the Canadian city of Halifax have found and recovered 10 bodies from a Spanish trawler that sank off the eastern coast of Canada, the services say, though 13 crew are still missing.
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"Regrettably, Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) Halifax can confirm that an additional three deceased individuals have been recovered from the sunken fishing vessel," the centre said on its twitter account. It had announced the recovery of seven bodies earlier.
Three surviving sailors from the trawler, suffering from severe hypothermia, were plucked from a life raft early on Tuesday.
The vessel, the Villa de Pitanxo, with a crew of 26 comprising 16 Spaniards, five Peruvians and five Ghanaians, launched a distress beacon, Spain's fisheries ministry said.
She sank around 450km east-southeast of Newfoundland, the ministry said.
The Villa de Pitanxo belongs to Nores Marin, a fishing company based in Pontevedra in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia.
