by EFE
At least four of about fifteen migrants who tried to reach the coast of the United States near Florida have drowned when the boat in which they were traveling capsized on Saturday night, the US Coast Guard reported this Sunday.
The federal agency did not report the origin of the migrants, who are mostly Cubans or Haitians who cross the Straits of Florida.
[The United States will resume deportation flights of Cuban migrants back to the island “in the coming weeks”]
The Coast Guard said it has only recovered the body of one of at least four people who were reported drowned at the time of the shipwreck.
Coast Guard crews were searching this Sunday for 5 people who were shipwrecked, about 50 miles off Little Torch Key, Florida.US Coast Guard
He also specified that they are looking for about five people and that nine were rescued.
The immigrants faced dangerous winds yesterday that reached 30 miles per hour (about 50 kilometers) near the Florida Keys, a chain of islands in the southeastern United States, about 90 nautical miles from Cuba, about four hours of navigation.
[Some 12,000 migrants sleep in boxes after the new policies agreed by Mexico and the US]
Authorities continued their search for the drowned on Sunday in the area of the shipwreck, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Little Torch Key.
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On the other hand, on Saturday, a Coast Guard ship transferred 217 Haitian immigrants to the Bahamas islands, after intercepting them in a rustic boat near Dog Rocks, in Bimini.
Since last October 1, when the current fiscal year began, the Coast Guard has intercepted 395 Haitian immigrants.
During the past fiscal year, the federal agency found a total of 7,175 migrants from that country in clandestine trips.
