World News Tonight (ABC) - 1993-06-06
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[0:01] From ABC, this is World News Sunday.
[0:06] Here's Carol Simpson.
[0:07] >> Good evening. [music]
[0:08] New York City and federal officials are
[0:10] tonight trying to find out who was
[0:12] responsible for trying to smuggle
[0:14] hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants
[0:16] into the United States aboard a small
[0:19] freighter which ran ground on a New York
[0:21] City beach early this morning. At least
[0:24] six are known dead. Scores were hurt.
[0:26] Immigrants described to authorities a
[0:29] horrible journey. 100 days at sea in the
[0:32] cramped freighter with little food.
[0:34] ABC's Bill Blakemore has details.
[0:38] >> Approximately 300 illegal immigrants
[0:40] from Asia are thought to have been
[0:41] packed on board the small freighter. It
[0:44] was discovered at about 2 in the morning
[0:45] a ground off a city beach on the
[0:47] Atlantic just east of the entrance to
[0:49] New York Harbor. Some were already on
[0:51] the beach. Some could have already
[0:53] disappeared into the city. Others were
[0:55] jumping into the heavy surf, clutching
[0:57] belongings in sealed plastic bags with
[1:00] sealed containers as flotation devices.
[1:02] >> I guess they thought that they had to
[1:04] bail out immediately and they they just
[1:06] grabbed whatever they thought could
[1:08] smoke. They were hanging on to 5gallon
[1:10] jugs.
[1:11] >> Six people are confirmed dead,
[1:13] apparently drowned in the last few yards
[1:15] of their long trip from the other side
[1:16] of the world. Whether everyone else who
[1:18] tried to swim made it may never be
[1:20] known. There's no reliable passenger
[1:23] list and rescuers say there was a strong
[1:25] riptide and undertoe out to sea. More
[1:28] than 20 were taken to local hospitals.