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"More than 100 migrants from Haiti were rescued and about 30 died after an overloaded sailboat overturned in the Bahamas.The U.S. Coast Guard said more than 100 Haitians fell into the water after their boat grounded off Staniel Cay in the eastern Bahamas.Photos released by the Coast Guard show about 100 Haitians clinging to the hull of the boat.Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios said the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and Coast Guard began a rescue operation after the boat ran aground Monday night.Coast Guard crews from Florida dropped food, supplies and eight life rafts into the water.Staniel Cay is in the Exumas, a Bahamian island chain east of Nassau.Haitian migrants have long passed through the archipelago east of Florida on overloaded vessels seeking to settle in the Bahamas or reach the U.S.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | SocialView, Share Breaking News Photos On WPBF.com's u local:9146236"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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