More than 100 migrants rescued from overloaded vessel before it hit sand bar in Florida Keys - CNN

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More than 100 radical were rescued from an overloaded vessel aboriginal Monday earlier it deed a soil barroom successful the Florida Keys, according to the US Coast Guard and the US Border Patrol.

Another 18 Haitian migrants “who were trapped successful unsafe water currents portion attempting to aquatics to shore” besides were rescued by federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement, US Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Walter Slosar said Tuesday connected Twitter.

How galore migrants were connected the vessel, however galore were rescued and their conditions stay unclear. Everyone’s nationality besides wasn’t instantly known, the Coast Guard said.

As the vas deed the soil barroom disconnected Whale Harbor, determination were “reports of radical successful the h2o and our onshore partners are connected scene,” the Coast Guard Southeast said successful a tweet.

Rescue efforts were launched, per the Coast Guard.

Conditions were unsmooth for rescue crews, with 6- to 10-foot seas and winds of 25 miles per hour, the Coast Guard told CNN. Whale Harbor is successful Islamorada, successful the Upper Florida Keys.

The rescue operations began erstwhile a bully Samaritan reported the vas to the Key West ticker standers astatine 5 a.m., the Coast Guard said successful a tweet.

On Sunday, the Coast Guard said astatine slightest 5 radical died aft a homemade vas capsized adjacent Florida’s Little Torch Key. Nine radical were rescued from the vessel, according to the agency.

Authorities had astir 7,000 encounters with Haitian migrants successful Florida successful October, compared to conscionable 1,188 successful October 2021, according to US Customs and Border Patrol data. The bureau reported astir 57,000 encounters with Haitian migrants successful Florida successful 2022, an summation from astir 49,000 the anterior year.