22 rescued after Cuban migrant boat capsizes

A migrant-smuggling boat on a night run from Cuba to the US capsized in rough seas, dumping more than two dozen people in the water, the US Coastguard said.

A migrant-smuggling boat on a night run from Cuba to the US capsized in rough seas, dumping more than two dozen people in the water, the US Coastguard said.

Twenty-two Cubans - four of them children and one a man who said he had been swimming for half a day - were rescued by coastguard cutters or other ships assisting in the search.

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