The St Kitts and Nevis Protection Coast Guard discovered a ship with 19 deceased and unidentified our bodies of people, drifting off the coast of Nevis, after responding to a report a few drifting boat shortly earlier than noon, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
In response to the authorities, the Coast Guard states that they do not know relating to the origin or concerning the presence of the boat and that the vessel was towed to St Kitts for additional investigation.
The main points relating to the investigation stay unclear, besides the truth that the boat was discovered within the waters surrounding the Federation.
The Preliminary Investigation
Sharing some particulars concerning the ongoing investigation, Deputy Police Commissioner, Cromwell Henry stated that the boat had a really foul scent because the our bodies discovered have been severely decomposed, as a result of which, figuring out the genders of the physique is getting accomplished and troublesome.
Moreover, some paperwork have been additionally discovered on the boat, with the our bodies, suggesting that the unidentified people could also be from Mali, South Africa.
It’s to be famous that the police studies first talked about the invention of solely 12 our bodies, however later launched a press release that 7 extra decomposed our bodies have been discovered within the different components of the boat.
The Authorities acknowledged that the investigation continues to be ongoing and no connection between the our bodies present in St Kitts and Nevis and people present in Trinidad final weekend has been discovered until now.
Caribbean area sees second such incident throughout this week
Related studies from Trinidad have been additionally obtained this week, marking the second such incident in current weeks within the Caribbean area.
A fishing boat containing a number of decomposing our bodies was discovered close to Trinidad’s southeast coast within the Atlantic Ocean by a couple of oil staff on Saturday.
5 decomposed our bodies have been discovered within the boat which was surrounded by a powerful odour and confirmed indicators of decay. The police suspected that the boat may need been adrift for a number of weeks.
