Ten missing after boat capsizes in Puerto Rico

US Federal authorities detained 17 Dominican migrants on Friday after their boat capsized near Puerto Rico's northwest coast

US Federal authorities detained 17 Dominican migrants on Friday after their boat capsized near Puerto Rico's northwest coast in the pre-dawn hours, with the US Coast Guard searching for an estimated 10 others still missing, Qazet.az informs via The Guardian.

Jeffrey Quiñones, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, told the Associated Press that those detained told officials that a total of 27 people were onboard the boat that struck a rock and turned over near Shacks Beach in Isabela.

"There are no indications that they have drowned," he said of those still missing.

The boat, known as a Yola, overturned about 69 meters from shore, a US Coast Guard spokesman, Ricardo Castrodad, told the AP.

No migrants have been rescued at sea, although he said the Coast Guard will continue looking.

The incident comes a day after the Coast Guard suspended a search for an estimated 34 migrants who went missing in waters off Florida, with five bodies found. They were onboard a boat that left Bimini, a chain of islands in the Bahamas that lies just east of Miami.

A lone survivor, a Colombian, was found clinging to their boat off Fort Pierce, Florida. He said he and 39 others had departed Bimini for Florida. Authorities have not released their nationalities.