Two Lankans among victims of US boat
The U।S। Coast Guard called off its search Wednesday for at least 12 missing migrants — including two Sri Lankans — in choppy waters off the British Virgin Islands after their flimsy boat collided with a reef and broke apart।
Rescuers said roughly 25 people, most of them Haitians, had been aboard the overloaded boat that was illegally travelling the 100-mile (160-kilometer) passage from the Dutch territory of St. Maarten to the British Virgin Islands. They were apparently island-hopping in hopes of eventually reaching U.S. shores when the boat hit a reef Monday night, pitching passengers into the ocean.
Crews used aircraft and several boats to look for any sign of the missing people — including three children — in white-capped Atlantic waters off Anegada, a sparsely inhabited island of coral and limestone, according to U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad.
Rescuers scoured a vast ocean area covering more than 586 square nautical miles for two days before ending the search, he said। Fishermen reported spotting a corpse and a live person drifting a couple miles off the northernmost island of the wealthy British archipelago, but said they vanished beneath the waves.
Crews used aircraft and several boats to look for any sign of the missing people — including three children — in white-capped Atlantic waters off Anegada, a sparsely inhabited island of coral and limestone, according to U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad.
Rescuers scoured a vast ocean area covering more than 586 square nautical miles for two days before ending the search, he said। Fishermen reported spotting a corpse and a live person drifting a couple miles off the northernmost island of the wealthy British archipelago, but said they vanished beneath the waves.
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