MANTA, Ecuador (Reuters) - An Ecuadorean teenager who survived days in the sea clinging to a barrel of fuel said on Friday that dozens of people who hoped to emigrate to the United States were locked in the hold of a boat when it sank.
More than 100 Ecuadoreans drowned when the wooden fishing boat with a capacity for 13 people sank in the Pacific Ocean last week. Nine people survived by hanging on to fuel and water tanks until a passing boat picked them up on Sunday. Four others who initially escaped the sinking vessel gave in to exhaustion and drowned.
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