5 bodies found in search for survivors of capsized boat off Florida
India Today
The US Coast Guard said it recovered bodies of five out of 39 people reported missing after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend.
The US Coast Guard said on Thursday it had found four more bodies off Florida's Atlantic Coast from a boat that capsized over the weekend while engaged in what officials believe was an attempt to smuggle migrants into the United States.
The Coast Guard said it would suspend its search operations by sunset on Thursday unless new information came to light before then.
The four additional bodies found in the last 24 hours makes for a total of five recovered out of 39 people reported missing, Coast Guard Commander Jo-Ann Burdian said at a news briefing in Miami.
"If we don't receive additional specific information to help redirect our search, we'll suspend that active searching," Burdian said.
Rescue crews have been looking for survivors since a boat overturned in rough seas on Sunday morning after it left the Bahamas' Bimini islands, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Miami, on Saturday night.
The vessel capsized about 45 miles (72 km) east of Fort Pierce Inlet, off Florida's Atlantic coast, about midway between Miami and Cape Canaveral.
Rescue crews earlier recovered the body of one person, the Coast Guard said on Wednesday.
