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

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 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.