They rescue 10 Cuban migrants who were shipwrecked on a raft off the coast of Florida

The Coast Guard rescued 10 Cuban migrants from a sinking raft off the coast of Florida, the agency reported this Sunday night.

A Coast Guard vessel spotted the vessel Thursday about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the Key Largo callus, the agency said in a tweet.

"They didn't have life jackets or safety equipment,"

said Capt. Shawn Koch of the Coast Guard in Miami.

"If the aircrew hadn't found them during the patrol, these people would not have survived the night."

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This photograph shows a group of Cubans on a sinking raft, on February 3, 2022, off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.AP

Six of the migrants were repatriated to Cuba and four were brought ashore for medical treatment, the Coast Guard reported.

The incident comes two weeks after a raft believed to be used by migrant smugglers sank near Florida on its way from the Bahamas.

Only one of the 40 people on board survived.

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US authorities have warned for years of the extreme dangers of trying to immigrate to the country irregularly by sea, particularly through the treacherous waters of the Caribbean.

In the last fiscal year (which runs from September 30, 2020 to October 1, 2021), the Coast Guard detained 838 Cubans, 1,527 Haitians and 742 citizens of the Dominican Republic in the region that includes Florida and the Caribbean.

The agency also detained immigrants from other nations, but did not provide a breakdown of the other nationalities.