The U.S. has launched a criminal investigation into whether a human smuggling ring is behind a boat that capsized off Florida with 40 migrants onboard.
MIAMI - Rescue teams have found one body and are searching for 38 other people reported missing after their boat capsized off Florida's coast, the US Coast Guard said on Wednesday (Jan 26), an incident that is being treated as a human smuggling attempt gone awry. Coast Guard Commander Jo-Ann Burdian said during a news conference in Miami that search.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a storm.