Authorities in St. Kitts and Nevis launch investigation after 19 individuals discovered lifeless in drifting vessel

Authorities within the jap Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis mentioned Thursday they’re investigating the circumstances that led to the invention of a minimum of 19 our bodies discovered drifting at sea.

At round 11:30 a.m. native time on Wednesday the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard responded to a report of a drifting vessel off the coast of Nevis. The partially submerged boat contained decomposed human stays. It was towed to St. Kitts, the place police and medical officers are conducting investigations.

“It was a fishing vessel, which isn’t sometimes discovered within the Caribbean,” Police Commissioner James Sutton informed The Related Press. “We’re not sure, however we consider that this vessel originated off the West African coast.”

Sutton mentioned officers now face the troublesome job of figuring out the precise variety of our bodies and figuring out them. The superior state of decomposition, he mentioned, has made it troublesome.

That is the primary such discovery in latest reminiscence within the twin-island nation.

In August, forensic authorities within the Dominican Republic labored to establish the stays of a minimum of 14 largely decomposed our bodies discovered on an deserted vessel 10 nautical miles of its northern coast. The Dominican Republic Navy mentioned the 14 skeletons appeared to belong to people from Senegal and Mauritania, in accordance with the documentation discovered subsequent to the our bodies.

In 2007, three our bodies of individuals believed to be from North Korea had been recovered in northern Japan, two days after authorities discovered a dilapidated empty boat, coast guard officers mentioned. The coast guard mentioned a Japanese fishing boat picked up a male physique floating off the coast of Sakata in Yamagata prefecture and two extra our bodies washed up on a close-by seaside an hour and half later. The our bodies had been decomposed, however one had a lapel pin regarded as North Korean.