<p>KEY WEST, Fla. — Two people are dead and 10 others are missing after their boat overturned Thursday near the Florida Keys, officials said.</p>
<p>The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a location several miles off Key West around 1 p.m. Crews rescued eight people and pulled two bodies from the water, Petty Officer Jose Hernandez said.</p>
<p>Two Coast Guard cutters and several small boats continued to search the area Thursday evening for the missing passengers, Hernandez said. There was no immediate sign of the overturned boat.</p>
<p>Officials didn’t immediately know what type of boat the people had been traveling in or where they had come from.</p>
