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Ship sinks off Cabo Mayor

Another sailor is seriously injured from the original crew of 10. Seven members of the crew ­ of Spanish, Peruvian, Senegalese and Ghanaian nationality ­ were rescued alive from the Atlantic. One of them was seriously injured, having suffered severe hypothermia, but was discharged from the hospital.Those who died from hypothermia were one from Santander and the other from Ghana, while the missing person is from Peru, as reported by a news source.‘Vilaboa Uno’ sank in waters with a depth of 120 metres, which made rescue work extremely difficult. The bodies of the two deceased and the rescued fishermen were transferred to the fishing port of Santander.

Miguel Angel Revilla, the president of Cantabria, explained at a press conference that the missing crew member could still be inside the boat due to the fishing boat sinking “very quickly”.

According to a local news source, the ‘Vilaboa Uno’ fishing boat was built in 2000. Its crew had gone fishing for mackerel from the port of Santander. Ship sank off the coast.

REGISTERED unemployment fell in March in Spain in all the autonomous communities except in Madrid, where it rose by 1,013 unemployed. The greatest decreases were registered in Andalucia (­15,284 unemployed), Canarias (­5,775) and Castilla y Leon (4,446 unemployed).

The number of unemployed people registered in the offices of public employment services fell by 48,755 people in March in relation to February (­1.67 per cent) driven by the decrease in jobless people in the service sector due to Easter week hiring, according to data published on Tuesday April 4 by the

ACCORDING to the latest data published on Saturday, April 1, by the Last Resort Tariff (TUR) for natural gas, the price of this essential energy product changed significantly ­ for the better.

As announced on Thursday, March 29, by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the TUR for natural gas will fall by 29.9 per cent on average, compared to the price in force since the previous review on January 1.

This will be welcome news to Spanish consumers who have previously experienced the cost of this product affect­

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