AlHijjah 11, 1434, Oct 16, 2013, SPA -- At least four people died and about 10 other people were rescued after a boat with more than a dozen people aboard - including Haitian and Jamaican nationals - capsized early Wednesday off the coast of south Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Coast Guard members found the survivors clinging to the hull of a while vessel after receiving an emergency telephone call early Wednesday from a dispatch center in Miami. Rescuers recovered four bodies from the waters 11 kilometers east of Miami, and the survivors were taken into custody so authorities could investigate whether the group was part of a human-smuggling operation, the Coast Guard said. Images of the vessel show a small white boat with its center console missing. It was overloaded and lacked lifejackets, the Coast Guard said. The survivors rescued from the water were still on a Coast Guard ship at sea, and it was unclear whether they would be brought to the United States or repatriated.
