MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard crews launched a search for two missing people the agency says were among a group of 21 whose migrant boat capsized Wednesday off the Florida Keys.
Civilian boaters rescued 19 people from the boat about 40 miles off the coast of the Middle Keys city of Marathon, the Coast Guard said in a statement on Twitter.
Four of the rescued were transferred to local fire-rescue crews to be checked for unspecified medical conditions. The Coast Guard on Wednesday declined to comment on the migrants’ nationalities.
