The Coast Guard searched a Louisiana bayou early Thursday for a woman who vanished when a boat of duck hunters collided with a vessel four times its size. Five fellow hunters were killed.
Seven hunters were aboard the 28-foot aluminum boat that struck the 110-foot oil rig crew boat Gear Tide early Wednesday. An injured hunter was pulled from the water by people on the crew boat.The dead were pulled from the sunken hunting boat hours after the accident in Freshwater Bayou, 30 miles southwest of New Iberia. No one aboard the larger boat was injured.
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