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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — Eight people were killed when two suspected smuggling boats overturned off the coast San Diego, and crews are searching Sunday for seven additional victims, authorities said.
Authorities said that least eight people are dead and a search for at least seven victims was underway Sunday after a suspected human smuggling operation ended after two boats crashed off the San Diego coast late Saturday night. James Gartland, chief of the lifeguard division in San Diego, said 'this is one of the worst maritime smuggling tragedies that I can think of in California, certainly here in the city of San Diego.' Gartland said a woman called 911 at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, saying she was on a panga boat with 15 people aboard that made it to the shore at Blacks Beach. Th...
Eight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach amid heavy fog and one capsized in the surf, authorities said
Officials said one boat carrying eight migrants came to shore at Black's Beach, south of the Torrey Pines Glider Port, shortly before midnight; a second boat carrying eight to 10 people, capsized
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — At least eight people were killed when two suspected smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach and one capsized, and crews are searching Sunday for an estimated seven additional victims, authorities said.