Eight people are dead after two boats crashed off the San Diego coastline late Saturday night, officials say.
The dispatcher used GPS information from the caller’s phone to determine the location of the capsized boat, which authorities said was about 800 yards north of Black Gold Road in La Jolla.
Lifeguards carried the seven bodies they initially found in the water to dry sand, and officers with Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations found the eighth body, officials said. Officials said some or all of the remaining passengers could have escaped via the beach about 15 miles north of downtown San Diego.It was unclear if any arrests had been made, and the nationalities of the passengers were not known.
The incident was one of the deadliest migrant smuggling operations ever in the area, said Eric Lavergne, a Border Patrol spokesperson. In May 2021, a packed boat used in a human smuggling operation capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others.
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