SAN DIEGO − Federal prosecutors have charged five people in connection with a fatal human smuggling incident, in which a panga-style boat overturned near San Diego and killed at least three people.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that crews has suspended ​a search for at least seven others who were missing.

Three people were killed, four were injured and nine others are missing after a small boat overturned early Monday in the ocean off San Diego, sheriff’s officials said.