MIAMI — A woman from Cuba died last week after suffering an injury on a migrant boat the U.S. Coast Guard found at sea off the Florida Keys.
The Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the woman as Madely Gamboa Rios. Her date of birth was not known, but Tiffany Fridley, director of operations for the medical examiner, said she was born in 1973, making her either 48 or 49 years old.
Gamboa Rios’ autopsy was pending toxicology results Wednesday evening, but Ramón Saúl Sánchez, leader of the Miami-based Cuban exile group Democracy Movement, said she was struck in the leg by the homemade migrant boat’s propeller shaft, which broke sometime during the dangerous journey.
