MEXICO CITY (AP) — A boat carrying Haitian migrants apparently capsized off the Bahamas early Sunday & Bahamian security forces recovered the bodies of 17 people & rescued 25 others.
It wasn’t clear if there were any people missing after the boat sank about 7 miles from New Providence.
Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said in a statement that the dead included 15 women, one man & an infant.
Davis said investigators had determined that a twin-engine speed boat left the Bahamas about 1 a.m. carrying as many as 60 people, apparently bound for Miami.
Davis said a criminal investigation had begun into the suspected human smuggling operation.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he sympathized with the parents of the victims.
“This new drama saddens the whole nation,” he said. “I launch, once again, an appeal for national reconciliation in order to solve the problems that are driving away, far from our soil, our brothers, our sisters, our children.”
A year after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse last July, gang violence has grown worse & Haiti has gone into a freefall that has seen the economy tumble. Attempts to form a coalition government have faltered & efforts to hold general elections have stalled. The turmoil has led a growing number of people to flee the country of more than 11 million in search of a better & safer life.
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