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Five people die in Santander when a passage by the sea sinks

According to information released so far, another person is missing and one has been rescued alive. It was a group of students from a vocational training center in Cantabria. 

 

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El Bocal beach in Santander this afternoon. Photo: EFE

Five people have died this afternoon in Santarder, Cantabria, after sinking a wooden walkway on El Bocal beach. Another person is missing and rescue teams are looking for him. Only one has been rescued aliveand taken to Valdecilla Hospital. 

It was a group of students from a vocational training center who were making a journey between the beach of El Bocal and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, a place where there are several wooden walkways, and the accident occurred as one of them passed. The structure has been broken and they have all fallen into the sea, in an area where there are plenty of rocks. 

The Cantabria Emergency Service has received a warning at around 4.45 p.m. and a comprehensive rescue operation has moved to the scene of the accident. 

 

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