At least twelve people, including seven children, died Saturday in the sinking of two boats near the Colombian town of Tumaco, on the border with Ecuador, local authorities said on Sunday.
“We learned that two boats had capsized and that 35 people had been saved. Ten adults and three children are currently hospitalized, ”
Rear Admiral Jose David Espitia of the Colombian Navy told reporters, without further details on the circumstances of this tragedy.
“At present”
, we know that twelve people have perished, including seven children aged between three and sixteen, for her part announced María Emilsen Angulo, the mayor of Tumaco, a municipality on the Pacific coast of Colombia.
There is
"a high probability"
that we still find lifeless bodies, she immediately added.
The accident happened on Saturday evening, as the boats were sailing between Tumaco and the town of San José del Guayabo, in the department of Nariño.