5 charged with human smuggling after boat capsized off San Diego, killing Indian teen and two Mexican nationals
CBSN
Five Mexican nationals are facing human smuggling charges after a small boat carrying over a dozen people capsized off the coast of San Diego, killing at least three passengers, including a 14-year-old boy from India, U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of California announced Tuesday.
The boy's parents and two others were hospitalized, prosecutors confirmed in a news release. Nine other migrants were missing from the boat and were presumably dead, but authorities later located eight of them in Chula Vista, nearly 30 miles away from Del Mar, where the boat was found. A 10-year-old Indian girl, the boy's sister, remains missing, prosecutors said.
"The drowning deaths of these children are a heartbreaking reminder of how little human traffickers care about the costs of their deadly business," U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon said in a statement.
