Four people found dead off the coast of western Greenland have been identified, while a local boat owner and his vessel remained missing, police said Thursday.
The bodies of two elderly Danish couples were found Wednesday, the day after the boat issued a distress signal that it was sinking in Greenland’s western Disko Bay, deputy police chief Morten Nielsen told dpa by telephone.
“We have not found the boat or the man who was driving it,” he said.
The missing vessel is an almost 9-metre-long Nordstar 26′. A search operation was launched after the mayday signal was picked up late Tuesday.
Nielsen said it appeared the couples had contacted a local man to take them by boat from Saqqaq and Ilulissat.
Disko Bay is known for its icebergs.
Police planned to search a 100-kilometre long stretch of coastline between the two locations for possible debris or traces of the missing captain, who was a local resident.
The next of kin of the four Danish nationals have been notified. The four, who were on holiday, were in their 70s and hailed from nearby Fredericia and Aarhus in western Denmark.
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