A 5-year-old boy was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast Thursday, one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that sank two days earlier in the Atlantic.
Seven people were presumed drowned and three others were missing, the Coast Guard said. The body of one woman was found floating about 3 miles from the boy, and authorities believe she had been tied to the same inner tube, Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Carr said.
The boy was spotted by a fisherman Thursday morning about 2 miles off Ft. Lauderdale.
Earlier Thursday, the two other survivors came ashore on another inner tube on Key Biscayne, Carr said. The two survivors, a 33-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, were severely dehydrated and sunburned.
The two told Coast Guard officials they had been among 14 people on a 17-foot boat that left Cuba before dawn Sunday, headed for Florida. The boat sank Tuesday, and the survivors said they saw seven people drown.
