San Juan.- The US Coast Guard reported this Friday that it rescued two of three undocumented Dominicans who jumped from a boat several days after drifting on the boat that was traveling to Puerto Rico.
The rescue was carried out on Thursday night near the coast of Aguadilla, on the northwest coast of Puerto Rico, after yesterday morning, the Coast Guard intervened in the Mona Channel with a group of 33 undocumented, 29 men and 4 women.
It was specifically at 7:06 p.m. local time (23:06 GMT) on Thursday that several coast guards traveling in a helicopter found and rescued one of the three undocumented immigrants lost three and a half nautical miles off the coast of Aguadilla.
This migrant was carrying a life preserver, which kept him afloat, the Coast Guard said. A while later, the second migrant, who was also wearing a life jacket, managed to contact the 9-1-1 Emergency System using a cell phone to let them know that he could see the Coast Guard helicopter looking for him.
The coast guard managed to locate and rescue the man, specifically at 8:15 p.m. local time (00:15 GMT) yesterday.
This undocumented immigrant, for his part, notified the authorities that four hours before being rescued, he lost contact with the third migrant, who did not have a lifeguard.
These three migrants are part of a group of 33 who were detained on Thursday morning 12 nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla.
The undocumented immigrants told the authorities that they were adrift for about four days and that the three people they were looking for between Thursday night and Friday morning jumped from the yola in which they were traveling holding onto gasoline containers to keep themselves at bay. float.
On Wednesday, the Coast Guard repatriated 44 migrants to the Dominican Republic, after also intercepting the two boats in which they were traveling on the west coast of Puerto Rico, one of them near Aguadilla.
