9 People Died As A Result Of A Fishing Boat Sinking In Falkland Islands, There Are 5 Indonesian Crew Members

Falkland Islands (Malvinas)/UNSPLASH//Fer Nando

Nine people have died and four others are still missing after the British-Norwegia fishing vessel sank off the coast of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

A total of 27 crew members were on the Argos Georgia ship, the Saint Helena-flagged ship. Fourteen of them survived, said Stig Ervik, CEO of Ervik Havfiske Holding Norway, to Reuters, Wednesday, July 24.

Ervik said the fishing vessel sank, but the company did not yet know the full details of the incident.

The crew consisted of 10 Spanish, eight Russians, five Indonesians, two Peruvians and two Uruguayans, all aged between 30 and 58.

Ervik declined to mention which crew members were confirmed dead.

One of the two rescue rafts available to the crew was found in a damaged condition, Ervik said, adding one person was found alive there while 13 survivors were found in another raft.

The Georgian Argos fishing vessel is 200 nautical miles east of Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, when it sank, the British foreign government said.

The government said the rescued crew was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley for a medical examination while search operations continued to search for those missing.