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California: a tourist boat burns, at least 8 dead and 26 missing

Photo provided by firefighters in Santa Barbara County showing a burning tourist boat near the coast of Santa Cruz Island on September 2, 2019 in California.

At least eight people died Monday morning in the violent fire of a tourist boat off the coast of California, and the chances of survival of 26 other passengers, still untraceable more than twelve hours after the tragedy, were more and more thin.

The boat, a 22-meter-long vessel set up for diving trips, sank as firefighters tried to extinguish the fire early in the morning, the coastguard said.

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