“Coast Guard air and surface units are responding Thursday to a vessel suspected of taking part in an illegal voyage that dropped off a group of non-U.S. citizens offshore near Punta Arenas in Mona Island, Puerto Rico,” the US Coast Guard said.

“Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources Park Rangers on Mona Island reported recovering five bodies from the water and that there were 66 survivors, 41 male and 25 females, including two minors who are safely ashore,” it added. (ILKHA)