The bodies of three more Haitians have been recovered by authorities in the Dominican Republic, raising the death toll to eight from a capsizing of a smuggler's boat last week.
Civil defence chief Leoncio Calderon Castillo says searchers found the bodies of two Haitian men washed up on a beach on Sunday.
Another asylum seeker's body was found in nearby waters where the seven-metre boat capsized.
Last week, a dozen Haitians who took the risky sea journey, looking for a better life, were rescued by the Dominican navy.
Those rescued told authorities the boat left early on Thursday for the US island of Puerto Rico and overturned a few kilometres from shore.
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Smugglers had stolen the boat from a tourism business.
