Search renews for missing migrants after nine die off Spain's Canary Islands

A Civil Guard officer watches a rescue boat searching for possible survivors after the sinking of a wooden boat with migrants near the port of La Restinga, on the island of El Hierro, Spain, September 28, 2024. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

EL HIERRO, Spain (Reuters) - Rescue crews on Sunday renewed the search for about 48 migrants missing since their boat capsized near the Spanish island of El Hierro in what threatens to be the deadliest such incident in 30 years of crossings from Africa to the Canary Islands.

Nine people, one of them a child, have been confirmed as dead after their boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, emergency and rescue services said.