By Sahar Akbarzai and Juliana Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — A search and rescue operation is underway after a ship carrying 27 onboard sunk off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The fishing vessel, FV Argos Georgia, requested assistance soon after it began sinking about 200 miles east of the islands in the South Atlantic at about 4 p.m. local time Monday, the Falkland Islands government said in press release Tuesday. The crew abandoned ship and some managed to board life rafts, the government said. Some of those who boarded the life rafts have since been rescued, but a search is continuing for those still missing, the statement said. CNN has reached out to the Falkland Islands government
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