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FROM
CUBA
Cuban border guards try to sink migrants'
vessel
HAVANA, Cuba, December 13 (José
Antonio Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- Cuban border guards tried to sink a small
craft in which 10 migrants were attempting
to leave the island last Wednesday, one
of them said.
Yolanda García said that as they
sailed off the south coast of Pinar del
Río province, they were intercepted
by two border guard fast-patrol boats, which
at first tried to swamp the boat in their
wake. When that failed, García said,
they threatened them with rifles, but desisted
after some of the men in the escaping craft
yelled that they had a woman on board.
Their ordeal lasted for four hours, said
García, until the patrol boats left,
apparently running out of fuel.
Later, she said, they had to land again
to repair their engine and were apprehended.
García said they were taken to the
Technical Investigative Department of the
police, where they were kept until Saturday.
She said there were about 50 others there
in similar circumstances.
García, 34, said this was her second
attempt to leave the island by these means.
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