3 killed and 9 missing after small boat capsizes off San Diego, Coast Guard says

SAN DIEGO AP Three people were killed four were injured and nine others are missing after a small boat overturned early Monday in high surf off San Diego s coast U S Coast Guard vessels and helicopters were searching for the missing while the four injured were sent to hospitals officers declared Coast Guard agents explained they did not know where the -foot -meter boat was coming from before it flipped Hikers and others at Torrey Pines State Beach released seeing a boat capsize near the shore at about a m reported Lt Nick Backouris of the San Diego Sheriff s Department A medical expert hiking nearby called in and announced I see people doing CPR on the beach I m running that way Backouris disclosed Pangas are open boats designed for fishing but commonly used by coyotes In eight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats approached a San Diego beach amid heavy fog One boat capsized in the surf marking one of the deadliest human smuggling operations ever in the U S