Canada: Bodies of three sailors found after vessel capsizes

Divers searched the icy waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence for a missing seal hunter today after recovering the bodies of three other hunters from a fishing boat that capsized as it was being towed by a coast guard ship.

The 12-metre (40ft) fishing boat from the Iles-de-la-Madeleine in Quebec, carrying a crew of six, had reported steering problems late Friday north of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, when the light icebreaker Sir William Alexander took it in tow.