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18 die after boat full of immigrants capsizes
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Eighteen Haitians died off the Turks and Caicos islands on Wednesday morning after a sailboat carrying more than 50 suspected immigrants capsized while being towed into port, officials said yesterday.
Thirty-two were pulled from the waters about 100 meters off Providenciales, an island in the Turks and Caicos islands north of Haiti in the Caribbean, according to the US Coast Guard. The survivors are being held in a Turks and Caicos immigration detention and removal center.
Turks and Caicos police intercepted the boat around 3am on Christmas Day, according to the governor’s office Facebook page. It capsized about two hours later.
“Police are still searching for the handful of people who reached shore and fled the scene, and their investigations into the incident continue,” the statement said.
The US Coast Guard deployed two helicopters and two Florida Coast Guard vessels were also dispatched.
Dozens of Haitians have died in similar accidents in recent years, as many seek to escape an island still reeling from the devastating 2010 earthquake.
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