Listin Diario publishes today that a recent mother agreed to breastfeed 12 fellow passengers of 17 on board a small boat that had attempted to make it to Puerto Rico but failed. The boat was rescued near Nisibón along the eastern coastline. The family members of the passengers had alerted authorities that the boat had left on 3 January and that they hadn’t heard from their relatives since. The survivors said they had paid RD$6,000 to make the crossing. They spent 12 days at sea. Several of the survivors were hospitalized due to severe dehydration.
