9 hours ago
Major hunt launched at sea for missing Brit woman who vanished after hiring boat
Spanish police and coastguards have launched a major search operation for a British woman who vanished after hiring a boat on the paradise island of Formentera.
Friends of the 29-year-old raised the alarm after she failed to return the 15-foot motor boat she had hired yesterday evening as scheduled.
A Spanish Coastguard helicopter is said to be assisting vessels taking part in the sea search. Police officers are also understood to be conducting a land search.
The company the missing Brit hired the boat from has been named locally as Helix Charter Formentera.
The vessel she left Formentera port La Salina in has been described as a cream-coloured Quicksilver 475 Axess with a Mercury outboard motor.
