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3 killed immigrants, 7 still missed and 4 injured after the boat capsized in front of San Diego Coast

A lifeguard from Del Mar overlooks on Monday, May 5, 2025, on the beach on the beach on the beach on the Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego, California, over a cent door. [AP Photo/Denis Poroy]

At least three people were killed, four injured, two in custody and an estimated seven other people, after a small boat near Del Mar, California, on Monday morning with a group of sixteen immigrants, among which adults and children belonged to, a mass accident event.

The 12-foot panga boat was turning near the coast, with a spectator picking up the tragic scene on video when the boat tipped over to the chopped water near Torrey Pines State near Torrey Pines. The occupants looked at sea with violent conditions with whip waves, strong winds and rain.

Numerous spectators hurried to carry out an HLW to carry out those washed on land. Lieutenant Nick Backrouris With the Saniff's office of the San Diego, the Associated Press (AP) said that “a doctor who walks nearby, called and said: 'I see people who do CPR on the beach, I run that way.”

According to the Sheriff department of the San Diego, the three deceased people were all adults. Two children stay under the missing. The four injuries remain in the hospital and after the latest updates there are at least one person in a critical condition.

Levi Read, Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, told the local media that at least some of those on board came from India, since a number of Indian passes were “found on the beach near the washing of the Panga”.

In order to justify the tragic loss of life, which seems to be the result of the Trump government's procedure on the border between the USA and Mexico, the officials continue to emphasize that the incident is a case of the suspected “human smuggling”. The Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, Chris Sappey, told the AP that they are “no tourists” and “As migrants, they are accepted” that smugglers usually use similar panga boats to move groups of immigrants.

Shawn Gibson, an agent by the US Homeland Security, investigation agency, told that of the USA TODAY That the incident was a “strong memory of the dangers of maritime smuggling”.

The disregard of human life was also evident in the relatively short search for the missing. In a press release on Monday evening, the US Coast Guard explained: “The response for almost 28 hours searched and covered more than 520 square miles.” In simple language, the search was discontinued on the same evening, and the announcement showed hours that were spent on separate search queries from the coast guard and the fire brigade to determine the number of 28 hours.

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