Four bodies were found on Anguilla Cay in the Cay Sal Bank near the coast of Cuba about a week ago, Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Commodore Roderick Bowe said yesterday; however a senior police official said police had not seen the bodies.
Bowe said the bodies were badly decomposed.
"I don't want to speculate, but from the pictures that we got they would have been there for a while," he said.
"Because it may be a crime scene and we are not trained to investigate in that fashion, it has been handed over to the police.
"That's a matter that the commissioner [of police] and I spoke about. He would rather his people go in and deal with it."
The Guardian first reported that police were investigating reports of dead bodies on the cay on March 21.
At the time, Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said he sent a team to the area to investigate and had no further details.
Ferguson told The Guardian yesterday that the officers reported that they did not find anything on the cay.
"We continue to probe the information," he said.
"We are still trying to determine the exact location."
When asked about Bowe's comments, Ferguson said he could not speak conclusively on the RBDF's information.

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