Fishermen seized
NZPA Nassau (Bahamas) Ten Miami-based boats ‘(seized by Bahamian patrol (craft were fired on without .(warning and one teen-age ((Cuban boy suffered a gun- • ishot wound to the head, witnesses have said. I The boats were captured ■ i by three Bahamian gunboats, :(in a gun battie on Friday (morning near Great Isaac (Light, about 100 km off the (coast of Fort Lauderdale, (Florida, and 30km north of (Bimini. ; Twenty-five fishermen, (believed to be Cuban■(Americans, and four sport i fishermen were taken into
custody by Bahamian authori ties. The Bahamian Government identified a boy hit in the head by a bullet as Vladimir Perez, aged 14, a Cuban exile living with his parents in Miami. Mr McMillian’s craft was apparently seized by mistake since sport fishing is allowed in the Bahamas, but commercial fishing is not. Bahamian officials indicated the shooting had followed an attempted ramming of one of the 18m patrol boats by “one or more” of the lobster boats. One official said the shooting had been provoked.
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