Authorities of St Kitts and Nevis discovered Mali Passports on the boat that was found by the St Kitts and Nevis Defence Drive (SKNDF) Coast Guard on January twenty ninth, 2025, after receiving a report of a vessel drifting southwest of Nevis between 11 am and 12 pm, which contained 19 decomposed and unidentified our bodies.
The passports reveal that some people could have been from Mali, West Africa, with police and forensic groups looking for the identities of the lifeless people whereas attempting to determine a timeline and cause behind the demise of 19 people.
In accordance with the reviews, the explanation nonetheless stays unclear. Nevertheless, the St Kitts and Nevis investigative authorities may collaborate with the Mali police to unravel this case and reveal if this was a deliberate homicide, state of affairs of human trafficking and foul play.
Furthermore, the crime scene continues to be being investigated by the Crime Scene Unit with some objects of evidential worth being collected. The investigation continues to be ongoing and the authorities proceed to look at the our bodies to search out their identities.
The Preliminary Investigation
The St Kitts and Nevis Defence Coast Guard discovered a ship with 19 unidentified our bodies on Wednesday, drifting off the coast of Nevis.
The preliminary investigation acknowledged that the boat contained 13 our bodies, however after cautious rechecking, 6 extra our bodies had been discovered in several elements of the boat.
The boat was surrounded with a foul order and the our bodies had been so severely decayed that even the genders of the our bodies are onerous to establish.
Moreover, the Authorities are additionally investigating to discover a connection of this case with the one in Trinidad, the place a ship with 5 decomposed our bodies had been discovered by some oil employees within the Atlantic Ocean, close to the southeast coast of Trinidad on Saturday, January 25, 2025.