American Military News by David Goodhue and Sonia Osoria - Miami Herald - January 28, 2022
Coast Guard ends migrant search off Florida coast after 5 bodies found, 34 more feared dead
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday night for dozens of migrants who disappeared in the ocean after their boat capsized about 40 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet shortly after it left the Bahamas en route to Florida.
Five bodies have been recovered since Wednesday and one survivor was rescued. There were 40 migrants on the boat when it capsized.
The Coast Guard had said during an afternoon news briefing in Miami Beach that there was little chance any more survivors would be located other than the one man found resting on the bow of the overturned 25-foot vessel. After sunset, the agency called off the search.
“It does mean we think it’s unlikely anyone else survived,” Capt. Jo-Ann Burdian, commander of Coast Guard Sector Miami, told reporters Thursday during a news briefing at the Coast Guard’s Miami Beach base.
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