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View all search resultsSearch and rescue workers earlier found the body of one of Carrera's daughters and are still looking for his two sons, while his wife and another daughter survived the accident.
Rescue workers retrieve the body of Spanish citizen Fernando Martin Carreras on Jan. 4, 2026, in the waters off the Padar Strait in Komodo National Park, Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara. Carreras and his family were onboard the KM Sinar Sakinah, which sank on Dec. 26, 2025, because of bad weather. (Kompas.com/Basarnas Maumere Office)
joint search and rescue (SAR) team found the body of a Spanish soccer coach on Sunday, who went missing with three of his children after the pinisi boat they were in capsized on Dec. 26.
“At exactly 8:47 a.m. local time this morning, the joint SAR team found a body believed to be a victim of the KM Putri Sakinah … at about 1.13 nautical miles from the accident point,” National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Maumere Office chief Fathur Rahman said, as quoted by Kompas.com.
He said that the joint SAR team evacuated the body onboard KN Puntadewa SAR ship to Labuan Bajo.
Fathur said the joint SAR team would continue searching for the two other missing victims.
Valencia B women’s team soccer coach Fernando Martin Carreras and his family members were onboard the KM Putri Sakinah, which sank on Padar Strait in Komodo National Park on Friday, because of bad weather.
Carreras was on board with his wife Andrea Ortuño and sons Mateo Martín García and Enrique Javier Martínez Ortuño and daughters Mar Martinez Ortuno and María Lía Martín Ortuño.
Also on board were four crew members and a tour guide.
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