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Rescue workers have suspended the search for a boat with around 20 occupants that has disappeared in the Atlantic not far from the Florida coast.

The almost nine-meter-long motorboat left on Monday on the Bimini archipelago belonging to the Bahamas and was no longer sighted afterwards, the US Coast Guard announced on Friday (local time).

Actually, it should have arrived in the port of Lake Worth on the east coast of the US state Florida long ago - but the boat never showed up there.

According to the information, the rescue workers searched a sea area of ​​44,000 square kilometers with ships and airplanes, but gave up after 84 hours.

"Our thoughts and prayers go to the families of the missing," said the Coast Guard message.

The search would then continue when the authorities received new information on the fate of the boat.

The route between Bimini and Lake Worth is approximately 120 kilometers.