2 dead, 10 missing after boat carrying Cuban migrants capsizes off Key West

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2 dead, 10 missing after boat carrying Cuban migrants capsizes off Key West
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Breck Dumas
May 27, 2021
 

A vessel full of Cuban nationals trying to reach the U.S. capsized and sank off Key West, Florida, on Thursday, leaving two confirmed dead and another 10 missing, according to officials.
 

What are the details?

The New York Times reported that a Coast Guard cutter came upon a group of people floating in the water roughly 16 miles from the coast in the early afternoon, with no boat in sight. Eight survivors were rescued.

"There was no vessel. The people were found in the water," Petty Officer Jose Hernandez told the newspaper. "That's why we don't have any of the nationalities or anything like that."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2-dead-10-missing-after-boat-carrying-cuban-migrants-capsizes-off-key-west

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U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for 10 Cuban migrants from capsized boat near Florida
Kanishka Singh

 
The U.S. Coast Guard said it has suspended the search for 10 Cuban migrants believed missing from a boat that capsized off Key West, Florida.

Two people were killed and 10 were believed missing in the incident, the U.S. Coast Guard had reported on Thursday.

Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force, Customs and Border Protection and Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission air and surface asset personnel conducted multiple search patterns for more than 123 hours, covering about 8,864 square miles, the Coast Guard said in a statement on Sunday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-coast-guard-suspends-search-10-cuban-migrants-capsized-boat-near-florida-2021-05-31/?rpc=401&