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 passenger tragically died after falling overboard from MSC Virtuosa during a cruise near the Channel Islands in England.

The French coastguard say the person was winched by helicopter from the sea but later pronounced dead by a medical team

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.