Twelve people die and 39 are disappearing at the capsize of yola

The desire to change his life, and economic situation was the reason that prompted some 65 people to take a fragile vessel to the neighboring island of Puerto Rico, which yesterday early morning Saturday capsized off coast of Samana, when the glass fibres are used to build the boat gave to the weight and the high waves, leaving by the time twelve dead, 14 injured survivors and a few missing 39.

The trip was estimated at RD$ 1.5 million that were paid in cash to a single person identified as Berto, the alleged organizer of the illegal crossing, said the surviving King David Cepeda.

Of twelve scavenged carcasses, the medical pathologist, Santini Calderón Gaston, identified Silvestre Antonio Hernandez, 33 years and San Francisco de Macorís; José Agustín Ozoria Tavárez, 31 years, Pimentel, and the Madam Enny Altagracia Morrobel Lopez, 30 years, who was pregnant.

The wounded were u000aidentified as Julio Cesar Hernandez, 23 years old, of San Francisco de Macorís; Maria Sobeida Castillo Hernandez, resident in Pimentel; Gilberto Portorreal, 37 years old, of Pimentel; Arizzmendy Manzueta, 23 years old and resident in Jacagua; Manuel Ariel Valdez, 27, resident of the Yuna bass; King Daniel Cepeda, 38, and Luis Rodriguez, 50-year-old. The dead include five women and seven men, most still unidentified authorities.

The corpses and the wounded were taken after the rescue operation to Miss Elupina lamb, Sabana de la Mar hospital.

Some of the corpses were taken from naked waters, because apparently many were stripped of their clothes trying to save lives in the middle of the ocean currents. Knew of the tragedy when several of the survivors managed to reach the coast of Sabana de la Mar to swim across and gave alarm.

King David Cepeda, of 38 years, the first to arrive at the u000aBeach Acapulco from Sabana de la Mar, said that the vessel of 26 feet in length and up to 32 people, broke at 5: 00 a.m. on Saturday, and that many of the occupants immediately sank and were not seen ever.

Explained that he swam more than six hours in the Bay of Samana to save life.

Revealed that you paid 30 thousand pesos for the voyage. "We left the mouth of the Yuna River, in Nagua, but at the time of leaving more people climbed up and that was what made burst the vessel, as well as the bad weather that had", pointed out.

Identified the alleged organizer of the trip as Berto, who did not address the boat.

"I have 200 tasks of rice planted, but the economic crisis is hitting the producers, I have traveled five times and am prepared to continue taking the yola, because I can not stand the lack of room," meant.

Search
to search for more survivors have u000aadded two helicopters of the coast guard of Puerto Rico and a small plane operated by the Centre of emergency operations (COE), but rescue operations were interrupted by bad weather in the area.

The dead were brought past the 7: 00 p.m. at the headquarters of the National Institute of forensic science (step), in San Pedro de Macorís, to determine the real causes of their deaths. A human sea agolpó in the morgue of the hospital of Elupina Cordero, including relatives of the victims, in search of information about what has happened.

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Testimonies of the survivors
Daniel Cepeda, who paid 30 thousand pesos for the voyage, reported that he was beaten by members of the Navy, who accuse him of being the ringleader of the travel.

While Luis Rodríguez, a painter that was engaged in the sale of his paintings in Cabarete, Puerto Plata, paid 50 thousand dollars for the voyage.

"The glass fibers that are placed to strengthen the" u000a"vessel at the bottom they failed and the yola was filled with water and sank, and we all went to the bottom of the water", counted.

Arizzmendy Manzueta, narrated to directory journal 200 cultivated tasks of rice which mortgaged to pay for the trip, because the economic situation is drowning producers Pimentel and Nagua.

"I'll go many times can do, nobody holds the economic situation, the producers we are dropping dead and debts we are removing land", said the rice producer Julio Hernandez.

Victims resided in Sosua, Cabarete, Rio San Juan, Pimentel, Bobwhite and the capital.

Regional director of Civil Defense with seat in San Pedro de Macoris, Paul Polanco, reported in the search, in addition to the helicopter, involved several boats and an airplane.

The search could be affected by a strong downpour and the bad weather conditions that affect this town of u000aSabana de la Mar.

Some of the corpses were rescued in underwear and present burns all over his body.

Close business
the Prosecutor of Hato Mayor, Manuel Emilio Santana, ordered the closure of all shops in beverage dispensing, before the tragedy in the Bay of Samana and whose rescue is doing for Sabana de la Mar.

The zone traveled the authorities in Hato Mayor, including Senator Rubén Darío Cruz, Deputy Jose Alberto Vasquez and Governor Lucas family, who diligenciaban ambulances and vehicles to transport dead and wounded to hospitals.

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