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(回答先: 日本国民はバカばかりか？ 投稿者 考察者Ｋ 日時 2005 年 8 月 17 日 21:32:16)
Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:55 PM BST
BOGOTA/QUITO, Colombia (Reuters) - More than 100 Ecuadoreans were missing and feared drowned after an overcrowded boat they hoped would carry them towards new lives in the United States sank in the Pacific Ocean last Friday, authorities said on Wednesday.
The boat carrying 113 people -- mainly Ecuadoreans who hoped to illegally enter the United States -- sank on Friday in Colombian waters after sailing from the port of Manta without authorization on Thursday, an Ecuadorean Navy spokesman said.
Colombia's Navy only launched a search and rescue operation to look for bodies after the incident was reported late on Tuesday.
The boat had capacity for 15 people, the Colombian Navy said in a news release, in which it said it believed 120 people had been aboard.
A fishing boat saved seven men and two women after it sank 140 miles (225 km), from Colombia's Malpelo Island, the Colombian Navy said.
About 500,000 Ecuadoreans -- about one in 25 of the total population -- have left their politically unstable country since an economic crisis in 1999, mainly seeking new lives in the United States and Spain.
Many of them pay people smugglers to take them to Central America, then Mexico, and then across the U.S. land border.
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