WORLD IN BRIEF : WEST EUROPE : 32 Feared Dead in Atlantic Storm
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The toll from a savage Atlantic storm is believed to have risen to least 32. Twelve people are known dead and 20 are missing and feared dead in France, Britain, Portugal and at sea. Rescue teams searched for 11 sailors missing in stormy seas off the mid-Atlantic Azores islands after the fishing boat Velasco II went down about 480 miles northeast of Sao Miguel island, Portuguese navy officials said. The French death toll rose to 10 with the discovery of a drowned fisherman near the Brittany island of Brehat.
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