Tuna mistaken for corpses

A search for what was initially thought to be several corpses out at sea turned out to be tuna, the Armed Forces of Malta said yesterday. Yesterday morning the police informed the AFM that a number of corpses had been sighted off Marsascala. Two AFM...

A search for what was initially thought to be several corpses out at sea turned out to be tuna, the Armed Forces of Malta said yesterday.

Yesterday morning the police informed the AFM that a number of corpses had been sighted off Marsascala.

Two AFM patrol boats and a helicopter were dispatched to the area but the searches yielded only parts of tuna, an army officer told The Sunday Times.

The patrol boats and the helicopter, an Alpha Sierra 11, scanned an area around two nautical miles off Xghajra, the officer added.

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