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After months lost at sea on a small boat, 5 people are rescued in the island nation of Kiribati · Best of: Features

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  After months lost at sea on a small boat, five people are
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  rescued in the island nation of Kiribati This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Melbourne,
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  Australia, the AP. Five people, including two children, were rescued this week
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  in the South Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, after three months drifting
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  at sea in a twenty foot skiff, authorities said, another four remained
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  missing. Villagers rescued the group Sunday off Fanning Island in Kiribati, the
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  Australian Broadcasting Corp, reported after they had drifted an estimated five thousand
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  four hundred kilometres, three thousand three hundred and fifty five miles east
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  from the Federated States of Micronesia. The US Coast Guard in Guam
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  on Tuesday confirmed that the skiff with nine people aboard had been
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  reported missing after it failed to return to Ruo Island in Micronesia
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  on july thirtieth. A ten day search covering eighty five thousand seven
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  hundred square kilometers, thirty three thousand square miles, followed without any sign
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  of the missing boat or those aboard, it said. Incredible and wonderful
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  news these five folks were found and are receiving care, the US
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  Coast Guard told the Associated Press in an email. Our profound condolences
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  to family and friends of those who did not arrive with them,
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  the email added. When asked by the AP what happened to the
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  missing four, the US Coast Guard said it was continuing to gather
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  and confirm information and would reply as soon as possible. A lawmaker
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  in Kiribas, Kautiake Rakoroa, told ABC the survivors were being cared for
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  by a pastor on the island. Nursing officer Paquantoro told the ABC
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  on Monday that all five were severely dehydrated and malnourished. All were
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  put on intravenous drips and were showing signs of recovery. They can
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  give a smile face, they show the sign they want to eat,
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  she told the ABC. The survivors had yet to speak publicly about
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  their ordeal and had requested privacy, the Australian broadcaster reported. The Governor
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  of Micronesia's Chutsk State, Alexander Narun, issued a statement Sunday, saying he
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  had begun talks with the Kiribati Government to bring the survivors home.
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  There were nine people aboard they boat that went missing. Thanks be
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  to God for his love and mercy that five of the nine
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  have been found, Neroon said, through an interpreter. We continue to pray
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  for their four companions, he added. Narun did not immediately respond to
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  the AP's request for comment. The nine had been making a one
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  hour crossing between the islands of Marillo and Ruo when they were
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  caught in a storm, the ABC reported.