A boat loaded with passengers capsized north of an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico. Eleven people had been confirmed dead while 31 others were rescued. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad said a 'mass rescue effort' was still underway.
The boat was spotted more than 11 miles north of the uninhabited island of Desecheo, which is off Puerto Rico's west coast.
"These voyages are dangerous," Castrodad said."They're unsafe, they are grossly overloaded ... no lifesaving equipment. It wouldn't really take much for any of these vessels to capsize." Since then, trips of human smuggling boats have only increased, authorities say. In January, the Coast Guard searched for at least 38 people missing off Florida's coast after a suspected human smuggling boat that had left the Bahamas capsized in a storm. A sole survivor was reported.Haiti is struggling with a surge in gang-related violence that has killed dozens of people, including women and children, and caused thousands of families to flee their homes.
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