The Panamanian authorities have rescued 12 of the 13 crew members of a ship that was shipwrecked in the Pacific waters of the country.

The shipwreck occurred on Tuesday and the survivors spent the whole night adrift, explained the major of the National Aeronaval Service (Senan), Olmedo Escudero.

The boat had sailed from the Garaniché area, in the province of Darién, on the border with Colombia, and "as a result of bad weather, it capsized and people fell into the sea."