
Coast Guard calls off Florida search for 'human smuggling' boat passengers; more than 30 deaths feared
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The Coast Guard said Thursday that it was calling off a search off Florida's Atlantic coast for dozens of boat passengers who were still missing after the vessel capsized Saturday in what authorities suspect was "a case of human smuggling."
Five ships and eight aircraft had been searching an area about the size of Massachusetts since the lone survivor of the capsized boat was discovered Tuesday morning.
The survivor, who was hanging onto the vessel about 40 miles off Fort Pierce, Florida, said he and 39 others had set out from Bimini, an island in the Bahamas.
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