Cuba To Try Seven Women Who Tried To Escape

Cuba To Try Seven Women Who Tried To Escape
April 18, 2006 2:00 a.m. EST
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Havana, Cuba (AHN) - Cuba will try seven women for endangering their
children's lives as they tried to escape the country.

The official Granma newspaper reports the Cuban coast guard opened fire
on the suspected smugglers, killing one and wounding the other two. It
adds the children, ages 1 to 14, had to endure mosquitoes and lack of
food or water for two days before they were scheduled to meet smugglers
on April 5.

Granma says, "Once again it has been exposed how irresponsible and
unscrupulous people put the lives of their children in twice as much
danger: to drown during their voyage or get sick because of the bad
environment chosen by the smugglers."

The Associated Press reports the group included 25 other adults who were
supposed to leave the island on a 40-foot speedboat.

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