11 dead, dozens rescued after boat with migrants capsizes near Puerto Rico, Coast Guard says
The vessel is “suspected of taking part in an illegal voyage,” the Coast Guard said in a news release. Castrodad could not say where the boat was coming from or specify the nationalities of survivors, but he said such makeshift boats often carry migrants from the Dominican Republic trying to reach Puerto Rico.The survivors include 11 women and 20 men, he said, and authorities are talking to those rescued to glean more information.
Castrodad said the kind of vessel that capsized Thursday is known as a “yola” — a boat with “poor construction, always taking on water, unseaworthy and designed to try to just get these people across in one attempt.” The boats can be hard to detect, he said, and so it was fortunate that Customs and Border Protection crews spotted the emergency.
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