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Migrant clung to corpse to stay afloat
The group of 27 migrants took a common route, boarding a smuggler's boat to the Bahamas. Another survivor Johnny Boucher, 26, said they were packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
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- Published: 00:35 April 26, 2008
Nassau: A Haitian woman who left poverty and hopelessness in her homecountry on a boat heading to the US only survived by clinging to a dead body of another migrant after the boat sank. "I was holding onto a dead woman to keep afloat," the 23-year-old high school student said.
The group of 27 migrants took a common route, boarding a smuggler's boat to the Bahamas. Another survivor Johnny Boucher, 26, said they were packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
An hour after leaving Nassau, the boat suddenly began to take on water. Within moments, the boat capsized. Boucher said he had time to strip off two shirts, his pants and his shoes before plunging into the swells. Rescue teams arrived some nine hours later, he said.
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