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Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic.- Five more bodies were found near noon Wednesday, and total add eight recovered  in Samaná Bay today, in the wake of the makeshift boat that sank Saturday with 60 boatpeople headed to  Puerto Rico.

The bodies were found in islets of Los Cayos, near Cayo Levantado, according to East Naval region commander Héctor Ramon Méndez, who heads the search and rescue operations. He said rescuers expect to find more bodies today, since in his view enough time has passed for the cadavers to float to the surface.

The bodies have yet to be identifying and will be taken to the morgue at Sabana de la Mar hospital, Méndez said, adding that they’ll continue the search for other people who’re still missing.

With the bodies found Thursday the number of people who drowned in the mishap the boat which set sail from the nearby town of Nagua rises to 34, most of whom hailed from the city San Francisco de Macoris.

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8 comment(s)
Written by: generoso, 8 Feb 2012 2:32 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya

Desperation to migrate to Puerto Rico, where menial jobs are more available, at a US dollar rate, motivates and encourages this dangerous journey.
The failure of our authorities to patrol the oceans, and the government to provide the tools and opportunities for these desperate Dominicans, to stay and prosper in their own country is evident.
The rich get richer, the poor more desperate, and the politicians and military get fatter reaping on our poorest and neediest Dominicans, who have been displaced by the massive Haitian cheap labor, that are trespassing in our Quisqueya.
Written by: Atabey, 8 Feb 2012 4:28 PM
From: United States, NYC
390 years or ten years per death should be enough for the ring leaders. And put their faces on a National Campaign promotion that displays the enlarged bodies- not their victims faces-to the general public. Go to San Francisco de M., where many of the dead hail from, and have public meetings, school events to dissuade people from seeking such precarious illegal trips aboard.

Things are not all that good in PR BTW. Unemployment is massive with high criminality.

Stronger patrol of the eastern shores is necessary. With stiff mandatory 20 year minimum prison terms for violators of any kind! You do the deed, you do the time; doesn't matter if it's one person or 100 you attempt to take to shore.
Written by: RoyStone, 8 Feb 2012 4:59 PM
From: Australia
generoso,
You don't get 10 years even for willful, premeditated murder in the Dominican Republic. You negotiate a deal with the victim's family, then you walk free.
Written by: riosm, 8 Feb 2012 8:11 PM
From: United States
Truly sad, it remind's me of the Cuban boat people....will do anything even risk their lives for a better life.

Written by: RoyStone, 8 Feb 2012 9:16 PM
From: Australia
I don't understand why the boat was there. It is only about 100 km from Punta Cana DR to Rincon PR and more that twice that distance from the entrance to Samama Bay, and even further from Nagua.
Written by: RoyStone, 8 Feb 2012 9:46 PM
From: Australia
This is a huge tragedy with far-reaching implications. Yet we have heard nothing from the president, no high-level inquiry, nada. A president should be showing leadership in times of tragedy and crisis, not just cutting ribbons and gallivanting around the globe, telling the rest of the world what they should be doing.
Written by: BernardJeanPierre, 9 Feb 2012 1:03 AM
From: United States
Man that is heartbreaking. I hate to hear that. People seeing better opportunities elsewhere and willing to risk their lives to reach things that their own Government is depriving them of in one way or another. smh
Written by: Chichi, 10 Feb 2012 7:50 PM
From: United States
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