US Coast Guard searches for 15 migrants in Caribbean waters
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Authorities are looking for 15 migrants who went missing after their boat capsized in Caribbean waters this week, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday.
Officials said a good Samaritan rescued four migrants but that 13 Cubans, one Colombian and one Dominican were still missing. The migrants were aboard a boat travelling from the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Coast Guard said it believes the boat capsized between Saturday night and early Monday. Authorities said they found four lifejackets on Thursday in waters south of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Coast Guard said there are no signs of survivors so far despite searching an area roughly three-fourths the size of Puerto Rico.
The Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard also is helping with the search, along with authorities in the British Virgin Islands. Rangers with the U.S. National Park Service in the U.S. Virgin Islands are searching along the coast of St. Croix.
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