Authorities in St. Kitts and Nevis trigger an investigation after 19 people found dead in a floating vessel
Authorities in the Eastern Caribbean Nation of St. Kitts and Nevis stated on Thursday that they were exploring the circumstances that led to a discovery at least 19 bodies found at sea.
On Wednesday around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Coast Guard St. Kitts and Nevis responded to the Table Ship on the Nevis coast. Partially flooded boat contained broken down human remains. He was withdrawn to St. Kitts, where police and medical officers conduct investigations.
“It was a fishing vessel, which is not usually found on the Caribbean,” police commissioner James Sutton told Associated Press. “We are not sure, but we believe this vessel was created from the coast of West Africa.”
Sutton said that officials are now facing a difficult task of determining the exact number of bodies and identifying their. The advanced state of decay, he said, made it difficult.
This is the first such discovery in recent memory in the TWIN-ISLAN nation.
In August, forensic authorities in Dominican Republic He worked to identify the remains of at least 14 mostly broken down bodies located on the abandoned ship of 10 nautical miles of its northern coast. AND Said the Dominican Republic Navy It seems that 14 skeletons belonged to individuals from Senegal and Mauritania, according to the documentation found next to the body.
2007 three bodies of people believed to be from North Korea were recovered in the north JapanTwo days after the authorities found a missed empty boat, the Coast Guard officials said. The Coast Guard said that the Japanese fishing ship picked up a male body that hovered from the Sakat coast in the Yamagata prefecture and two other bodies washed on a nearby beach an hour and a half later. The bodies were broken down, but one had a reverba pin that is thought to be North Korean.
