Many dead as boat carrying Haiti migrants capsizes

A boat carrying Haitian migrants apparently capsized off the Bahamas early Sunday, and Bahamian security forces recovered the bodies of 17 people and rescued 25 others, authorities said. It wasn't clear if there were any people missing after the boat sank about seven miles from New Providence.Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said in a statement that the dead included 15 women, one man and an infant.

He said the people rescued were taken for observation by health workers. Davis said investigators had determined that a twin-engine speed boat left the Bahamas about 1 a.m. carrying as many as 60 people, apparently bound for Miami. He said a criminal investigation had begun into the suspected human smuggling operation.