By IANS,
Santo Domingo : At least 40 Haitian illegal immigrants have drowned when their ship sank off the Cuban coast, Xinhua reported Sunday.
The accident took place Saturday off the Punta Maisi coast in Cuba. A search was on Sunday to find survivors, an official said. Eighty-seven people were rescued.
Haiti, a Caribbean nation, is still recovering from a devastating 7.0-magnitude quake in 2010 that left more than 200,000 people dead.
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