Dominican authorities say they are looking for more survivors after fishermen rescued six people when their boat sank during an attempted voyage to Puerto Rico.
Pablo Planco is civil defense director for San Pedro de Macoris on the Dominican Republic's southeastern coast. He says the two women and four men were rescued yesterday and hospitalised for severe dehydration and burns.
Police say the six told of leaving the Dominican Republic on Thursday night in a wooden boat with about 14 other people on an illegal attempt to immigrate to Puerto Rico. The boat began foundering just hours into the journey.
Hundreds risk their lives each year traveling in fragile boats from the Dominican Republic to the US territory.
