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2 Ill People Evacuated From Cruise Ship
posted 5:38 pm Sun March 02, 2008 - MIAMI
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The Coast Guard in Miami says it has plucked two ailing passengers from a cruise ship that was south of Cuba.Coast Guard officials say the 88-year-old man and 80-year-old woman were airlifted from the Holland America cruise ship Westerdam when the ship was about 80 miles south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Officials say a Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted the two passengers late Friday. The man was taken to the Guantanamo Bay hospital and the woman was flown to a hospital in Miami.
A spokesman for the Holland America Line is declining to comment.
A spokesman for the Holland America Line is declining to comment.
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