A boat carrying Haitian migrants apparently capsized off the Bahamas. Authorities said local security forces recovered the bodies of 17 people and rescued 25 others.
It wasn't clear if there were any people missing after the boat sank about 11km from New Providence.
Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said in a statement that the dead included 15 women, one man and an infant. He said the people rescued were taken for observation by health workers.
Davis said investigators had determined that a twin-engine speed boat left the Bahamas about 1am carrying as many as 60 people, apparently bound for Miami.