Three dead, seven missing after panga boat capsizes near San Diego

Three people are dead and at least seven more are missing after a small boat overturned off the coast near San Diego, California, officials said.

At least 16 people, including two children, were on board the panga-style fishing boat, the US Coast Guard said. Initially, as many as nine people were reported missing - but two were later found and detained.

An official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the incident was being treated as a suspected case of human smuggling. A number of Indian passports were found near where the boat washed up on a beach, news agency Reuters reported.

Four of those found have been taken to hospital. It is not known if anyone else entered the water.

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