Death Toll Rises to 9 in Fishing Disaster Off Newfoundland

A view from a search aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, Canada, on Feb. 16, 2022. Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre/The Canadian Press via AP

BARCELONA, Spain—Canadian rescuers have located more bodies from a Spanish fishing ship that sank in rough seas off Newfoundland, raising the death toll to nine.

A search operation is still looking for the 12 crew members still missing after the ship went down in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Three members, including the captain, were rescued alive.