Dominican Republic: At least 6 immigrants dead in a sailor wreck

Six corpses, including this child, were recovered after the shipwreck off the Dominican Republic, which had 40 to 50 immigrants aboard, as missing companies are continuing, Civil Protection said Sunday. A previous official report, announced on Friday, spoke of four dead, three men and a woman. Seventeen people, seven nationals of Haiti and ten Dominican Republic, became possible to be rescued. The small sailing was headed to Puerto Rico, a neighboring island on the Caribbean, offshore US, 130 kilometers from the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, when it was wrecked. According to testimonies of those who survived, he transported forty to fifty people from forty to fifty people. Authorities have not confirmed the exact number of occupants as this stage. “We have seen people miraculously appearing after four, five or six days” in previous naval accidents, Dominican Director Juan Salas, director of the Dominican Civil Protection, observed yesterday at the French Agency. Rescuers reported that there were others alive in […]
Source: News Beast

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