The ship carrying the three survivors and the bodies of seven fishermen recovered from the sinking of the Spanish fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo arrived this Saturday at 07:10 local time (10:40 GMT) at the port of San Juan de Terranova (Canada).
The only three survivors of the tragedy travel on the
Spanish fishing boat
Playa de Menduíña 2 : the skipper
Juan Enrique Padín Costas,
his nephew
Eduardo Rial Padín
and the Ghanaian sailor
Samuel Kwesi Koufie,
as well as seven of the recovered bodies.
The other two bodies arrived on Friday on the Canadian ship Nexus.
The Villa de Pitanxo was wrecked on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland,
about 460 kilometers east of San Juan
.
It had a crew of 24 people, of which half remain missing. At the end of Wednesday, the Canadian authorities decided to put an end to the search and rescue tasks 36 hours after the shipwreck due to the lack of possibilities of finding Alive. half the crew, to that dozen.
The relatives of the victims want that tracking to be reactivated as soon as the weather allows it.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assured yesterday that, as soon as the weather conditions allow
it, the search for the missing in the
Villa de Pitanxo shipwreck in Newfoundland will be resumed, something that he has thanked by telephone to the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeu He has done so on his Twitter account, where he has also announced that on Sunday the Executive will charter an A-400 plane from the Air Force to the San Juan de Terranova airport for the repatriation of the 3 sailors who survived the sinking of the # VillaDePitanxo and of the 9 deceased rescued so far.
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