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For decades, Haitian boats illegally headed for South Florida have come packed with young men seeking to escape the troubled island. Few women, no children.
The Royal Bahamas Defense Force continued searching for more people after 17 were killed, including a child, when a boat they were in capsized in Caribbean waters.
Nearly all of the dead victims recovered from a Miami-bound migrant boat that overturned Sunday in The Bahamas were women, the second time in two months that an overwhelming number of Haitian women have lost their lives in a vessel that capsized.