2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck

[3] One survivor said the craft ended up on a reef while attempting to escape a patrolling police vessel.

[2] Many were brought ashore aboard small boats, whilst five migrants were located alive and well after seemingly having swum to safety.

[5] The incident was reported to the United States Coast Guard by authorities from Turks and Caicos.

[3] He said they were "hopeful" of finding more missing migrants alive but that "it has been a night and we have not located any additional people".

[1] The incident followed the interception of 124 Haitian migrants from what was described as a "grossly overloaded" boat travelling southwest of this shipwreck.