Haitian migrants claim boat rammed by naval ship

(CNN)-PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian migrants claim a Turks and Caicos naval vessel rammed their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized last week, killing dozens of people, the director-general of Haiti's National Migration Office said Tuesday.

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Jeanne Bernard Pierre, the director-general of Haiti's National Migration Office, said the migrants' account hasn't been confirmed but that the Haitian government would consider it "criminal" if found true.

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The death toll rose to 61 Tuesday from Friday's pre-dawn capsizing of the migrant-laden sailboat off the British Caribbean territory of Turks and Caicos, after more bodies were found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean, the Turks and Caicos government said Tuesday.

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[edit on 9-5-2007 by Black_Fox]

[edit on 9-5-2007 by Black_Fox]

This incident doesnt involve the US why is it a disgusting act by the US?