At least two people were killed and several injured in a boat accident off the coast of Florida on Friday, the US Coast Guard has said.

The collision between the two vessels took place at Nixon Beach in Biscayne Bay in south Florida at around 10.45pm local time.

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One of the people informed in the collision informed the Coast Guard about the emergency, following which a rescue operation was launched.

Subsequently, the Coast Guard Station Miami Beach and a Coast Guard Air Station Miami crew rescued 10 people from the site of accident, and managed to recover the body of one person who had been deceased.

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The second body was recovered by a Miami Fire Rescue crew that had also responded to the collision, a news release by the US Coast Guard said.

“A rescue swimmer was lowered to a Station Miami Beach small boat and assisted two critically injured survivors and transferred one of them to a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crew who brought the survivor to Jackson Memorial Medical Center for higher medical care,” the Coast Guard said, offering further details.

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“On behalf of the Coast Guard and our partner agencies, we’d like to offer our sincerest condolences to the families and friends who lost their loved ones. The Coast Guard and our local partner agencies quickly responded and exhaustively worked together on this search and rescue case,” Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Tuxhorn, the search and rescue coordinator for Coast Guard Sector Miami, said in the statement.

The Miami Fire Rescue said six of the 10 injured survivors rescued by the Coast Guard had been admitted to the HCA Florida Mercy Hospital in Miami, while two had been admitted at the Ryder Trauma Center.