A wooden boat what is believed transported migrants to the United States capsized in rough seas near San Diegowith a balance of at least four people dead and four hospitalizedreported today Saturday the Coast Guard.
The United States Border Patrol found last Friday the vessel in the waves frente a Imperial Beachcity of San Diegocounty Californiastate on the banks of the Peaceful.
A six people They found them on the beach shortly before midnight, one of them was declared dead and another was rescued after being found under the boat.
Approximately two hours later, authorities received a report of someone in the water near the dock. Imperial Beach.
A team of the Coast Guard He arrived at the site and found three people in the Pacific ocean, all dead.
The Coast Guard He said today Saturday that I kept looking for others that could have been on board.
.@USCG & partner agencies continue search for additional suspected aliens after a vessel capsized off the coast of Imperial Beach, Friday night.
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Shipwreck in San Diego: survivors call themselves Mexicans
Several survivors claimed to have Mexican nationalitywhile others They remained unidentified, the agency said. a person was delivered to Department of Homeland Security.
“Our crews and partner agencies responded immediately, but this case demonstrates the serious risks faced by foreigners attempting to enter the United States by sea in unstable vessels,” said the Coast Guard Capt. Robert Tuckercommander of San Diego Sector.
A strong system of storms hit the south of California over the weekend, creating the risk of flash flooding and landslides.
The damaged vessel was a pangaa single- or twin-engine open fishing boat that is also commonly used by smugglers.
The migrants increasingly resort to the dangerous alternative offered by smugglers to travel by sea and avoid land borders, which are heavily guarded.
Las in the bank come out of Mexico at night and sometimes they travel hundreds of kilometers (miles) towards the North.
Second migrant shipwreck in 2025
In recent years there have been several migrant boat accidents that overturn en route to California.
In May 2025at least three people died when a panga capsized off the coast, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Before, in 2023, eight people lost their lives when two boats that were used to smuggle migrants approached a San Diego beach in dense fog and one of them capsized in the surf. It was one of the deadliest maritime smuggling incidents off the coast of the United States..
A year earlier, in 2022and Federal judge sentenced San Diego man to 18 years in prison for piloting a small boat overloaded with 32 migrants that was destroyed by the strong waves off the coast, with a balance of three people dead and more than 20 injured.
Worldwide, almost 9,000 people died in 2024 trying to cross borders, according to the U.S. migration agency. HIM. The death toll established a record for the fifth consecutive year.
He UN Missing Migrants Project place the number of dead and missing in the central Mediterranean by more than 24,506 between 2014 and 2024many of them lost at sea. The project says that the number may be higher since many deaths are not registered.