A helicopter crew transferred the two men and one woman to a medical centre after they had been stranded for more than a monthThree Cuban castaways have been rescued from an uninhabited Bahamian island after surviving for 33 days on a diet of rats, coconuts and sea snails. The two men and one woman were spotted by a US Coast Guard crew during a routine patrol flight over the Anguilla Cays, a cluster of deserted, scrub-covered islands that lie between Cuba and Florida. Sponsored“Something caught my attention, like a flag waving in the wind. We dropped down to 200ft [and] I could see two people frantically waving,” said Lieutenant Riley Beecher of the Coast Guard. These were definitely tough conditions.”The atoll is on a route used by Cubans fleeing their homeland, though it was unclear whether

Source: The Times February 11, 2021 00:22 UTC