Coast Guard rescues immigrants from rafts

Friday, March 26, 2004

LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. -- The Coast Guard and beachgoers pulled three Cubans to safety from the treacherous surf Thursday after they were spotted bobbing offshore on rafts made of lashed-together inner tubes. As many as five others were missing from a group that left Cuba for the Florida coast about three days earlier, said deputy fire chief Mark Conn. A Coast Guard diver rescued one of the Cubans, a woman, from a black inner tube connected to three other tubes with white sheets.

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