Hopes of finding survivors are now almost nil.

Five days after the capsizing off Florida of a boat on board which were about forty migrants, five bodies have been found, and “active” searches will be suspended, the coast guard said on Thursday.

“If we do not receive additional information allowing us to refine our search or direct us to other survivors, we will suspend the active search at nightfall,” said the captain of the coast guard of the sector. of Miami, Jo-Ann Burdian, at a press conference.

Only one man who managed to hang on to the overturned boat was rescued by a Good Samaritan on Tuesday morning.

According to him, no one was wearing a life jacket when the boat capsized last Saturday after leaving a small island in the Bahamas.

The authorities suspect a “human trafficking” operation.

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