KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. national park comprising a cluster of uninhabited islands in the Florida Keys was closed Monday after 300 migrants made 10 landings there over the weekend, officials said.
The U.S. National Park Service estimated that some 300 migrants arrived in the Dry Tortugas National Park over the past couple days. The park is about 100 miles north of Havana, the Cuban capital.
Federal officials closed a Florida national park on Monday after some 300 migrants arrived on the cluster of islands near Key West over the last couple of days.
Dry Tortugas National Park will close for “several days” so that authorities and medical workers can evaluate, care for and transport some 300 migrants, park officials said.
Dry Tortugas National Park has been closed to the public after hundreds of migrants arrived by boat at the remote islands on the tip of the Florida Keys.
