Six people remained missing Monday after a tourist boat carrying more than 40 tourists, many of them American, sank off the Mexican coast, the US Coast Guard said.
US Coast Guard Petty Officer Pamela Boehland told CNN that US authorities were sending a helicopter to assist Mexican rescue workers. She said there was one unconfirmed report of a fatality.
Foxs News reported earlier that the ship left the port of San Felipe on the Sea of Cortez on Saturday and capsized during an electrical storm Sunday.
Citing El Mexicano newspaper, the network said that all but nine of 42 passengers on board had been rescued by the Mexican navy.
However, other unconfirmed reports put the number of missing at 23.
The accident occurred off Punta Bufeo, near Puertecitos, 87 miles (140 kilometers) south of the northern city of San Felipe, on the Baja California peninsula, Fox News said.
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