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Six days after communication was lost with the El Faro cargo ship as it drifted into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, the U.S. Coast Guard ended the search for survivors.


Of the 33 people aboard the ship, rescuers found one body on Monday:


The ship went missing near the Bahamas after it set out from Jacksonville, Fla., on Thursday. Bound for Puerto Rico, the cargo ship lost power and propulsion and the Coast Guard concluded Monday that it had sunk.

Twenty-eight of the 33 crew members were Americans, and the other five were from Poland.

Updated 6:50 p.m. ET: comment by the president

President Obama put out a statement which said, in part:

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Six days after communication was lost with the El Faro cargo ship as it drifted into the path of Hurricane Joaquin, the U.S. Coast Guard ended the search for survivors.


Coast Guard calls off search for El Faro crew

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