Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic.- The chase for the American Dream has again met with death for many of the around 65 boatpeople on a makeshift craft that sank near Samana?s coast while trying to reach Puerto Rico Saturday morning, as the overloaded boat broke up from the high waves, leaving 12 dead, 14 injured and 39 missing and presumed drowned.
Local medina of the Atlantic coast towns of Nagua, Samana and Sabana de la Mar report that the undocumented travelers paid a total of around RD$1.5 million in cash to board the boat called a yola, whose captain, identified only as Berto, allegedly organizes illegal crossings, said the survivor Rey David Cepeda, quoted by diariode3.com.
The coroner Santini Calder?n Gast?n said 12 bodies have been recovered thus far, including 30 year old Enny Altagracia Morrobel Lopez, who was pregnant.
The injured, from 23 to 50 years of age, and the bodies were taken to Elupina Cordero Hospital at Sabana de la Mar, where the search and rescue operation contiues.
Among the dead figure five women and seven men, which the authorities have yet to identify
http://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/...nican-Republic-north-coast-12-dead-39-missing
Local medina of the Atlantic coast towns of Nagua, Samana and Sabana de la Mar report that the undocumented travelers paid a total of around RD$1.5 million in cash to board the boat called a yola, whose captain, identified only as Berto, allegedly organizes illegal crossings, said the survivor Rey David Cepeda, quoted by diariode3.com.
The coroner Santini Calder?n Gast?n said 12 bodies have been recovered thus far, including 30 year old Enny Altagracia Morrobel Lopez, who was pregnant.
The injured, from 23 to 50 years of age, and the bodies were taken to Elupina Cordero Hospital at Sabana de la Mar, where the search and rescue operation contiues.
Among the dead figure five women and seven men, which the authorities have yet to identify
http://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/...nican-Republic-north-coast-12-dead-39-missing
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