Posted on 05/21/2006 10:08:10 PM PDT by Bangupjob
Managua, May 21 (EFE).- One Chinese national died and two others were injured when a boat sank in the Kukra Hill River, in Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, a police spokesman said Sunday.
Nine people, all also apparently from China, survived the mishap without being injured on Saturday.
Capt. Rolando Coulson, a police spokesman in the Caribbean city of Bluefields, told EFE that the small boat carrying the Asians collided with a cargo ship about 150 meters (some 492 feet) from the port of Kukra Hill.
The boat was being operated by a local man, who fled after the incident but has been identified, Coulson said.
Police located the body of one of the dead passengers on Sunday morning.
Eleven other Chinese passengers were rescued, and two were taken to a hospital for treatment of fractures suffered in the shipwreck.
Police are holding the nine uninjured Chinese, who will be turned over to immigration officials for processing, Coulson said.
Only three of the individuals carried documents with them, all passports from the People's Republic of China, and none spoke English or Spanish.
Police suspect the illegal Chinese immigrants were heading for Managua and from there to the United States.
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