Rescue teams went out in search of a woman in her twenties at around 2am on Saturday (12 October). The woman was on board the MSC Virtuosa cruise ship, which sent out a distress call saying she had gone overboard north of Les Casquets, close to Alderney in the Channel Islands.

A helicopter is said to have winched the passenger from the water following a search but she was pronounced dead

A woman has died after she went overboard from a cruise ship near the Channel Islands, say rescue services. An alert was sent out at about 02:00 BST for a search for the woman in her 20s north of Les Casquets rocks,

The tragic incident took place after the passenger went overboard from the 18-deck cruise ship bound for Southampton.

A woman has died after falling overboard from a cruise ship on is way to Southampton. French search and rescue as well as the Channel Island Air Search rushed to search for the woman, who went overboard from MSC Virtuosa while the ship was sailing towards Southampton in the early hours of this morning.