MARATHON – At minimum 4 folks are thought to have drowned and rescuers were hunting for yet another five individuals off the Florida Keys immediately after a handmade vessel capsized all through a failed migration attempt.
The U.S. Coast Guard said nine folks were rescued and the human body of a single human being was recovered Saturday soon after the boat capsized about 50 miles from Very little Torch Critical.
Some of individuals rescued have been putting on life jackets which probable saved their lives in the waves that strike as superior as 8 feet amid 30 mph winds, the Coast Guard reported in a tweet.
The Coast Guard did not say the place the men and women on the boat ended up from.
U.S. Border Patrol reported there has been approximately a 300 % maximize this 12 months in migrants arriving by boat. In Oct, there have been 54 landings that involved 850 migrants compared to previous Oct when there were only 14 landings.
