World IN BRIEF : HAITI : Sailboat Capsizes; at Least 15 Drown
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A sailboat ferrying about 50 passengers between two Haitian towns capsized in the Caribbean Sea, and at least 15 people drowned, a survivor said. The survivor, Jeansly Jean-Baptiste, said in a Radio Nationale broadcast interview that the sailboat L’Aviron, which operated as a ferry, sank off the village of Tiburon in southwestern Haiti on Thursday. News of the incident was delayed because of poor communications with the remote area, 140 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Earlier reports had said that the boat was carrying about 300 people and that more than 200 were feared dead.
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