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 going overboard on a cruise ship near the Channel Islands, the French coastguard has confirmed.

A woman has died after going overboard from a cruise ship off the Channel Islands triggering a massive search in the middle of the night.The French coast guard received a “man overboard” distress signal from MSC Virtuosa,

A French coastguard spokesman said its helicopter found the woman and hoisted her from the water. Despite this, a medical team later pronounced her dead.

A woman has died after going overboard from a cruise ship off the Channel Islands. The French coastguard has said it received a “man overboard distress message” shortly after midnight on Saturday October 12, from the MSC Virtuosa and a French navy helicopter H160 based in Maupertus, Normandy, was scrambled for the rescue mission.

A woman in her 20s has died after falling from the MSC Virtuosa cruise ship into the English Channel. According to a report by BBC, a distress signal was issued by the 18-deck cruise ship, after the woman went overboard near Les Casquets rocks,

A 28-year-old Colombian woman who died after going overboard on a cruise ship has been named. The Colombian consulate in London said Jessica Andrea Gómez Granda had been a passenger on the MSC Virtuosa when she was reported missing at about 02:00 BST on Saturday,

The tragic incident on the Maltese-flagged MSC Virtuosa triggered a major search and rescue operation on Saturday

The woman who died after falling from a cruise ship near the Channel Islands has been named. Jessica Andrea Gómez Granda, a 28-year-old from Colombia, was recovered from the water near Alderney island after a multi-national search effort on Saturday.