Hope dims in search for migrants
Police in the Turks and Caicos scaled back their search for more than 40 missing Haitian migrants, assigning a single vessel to scan the shark-infested Caribbean waters where the crowded sailboat capsized Friday.
Searchers found no bodies or survivors over the weekend, dimming hopes for the rescue effort.
“We haven’t called the search off completely as yet,” police Inspector Hilton Duncan said.
About 160 people were aboard the boat when it capsized during stormy weather Friday about 125 miles north of Haiti. Authorities said 36 drowned.
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