12 Migrants Die as Crowded Boat Capsizes
Twelve Haitian migrants died and 73 others were rescued when an overloaded sailboat capsized before dawn near a remote Bahamian island, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
According to survivors’ estimates, as many as 15 people were still missing. U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defense Force crews were looking for them, Coast Guard officials said.
The 35-foot boat was carrying as many as 100 Haitians when it overturned about six miles west of Great Inagua, an island about 75 miles north of Haiti’s north coast and 500 miles southeast of Miami.
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