Families identify 21 Abaco dead

Fri, Feb 8th 2019, 08:00 AM

 

On the day that another Haitian body washed up on shore - a female - the League of Haitian Pastors reported that they have been in contact with family members for at least 21 of the now 31 migrants who died when their sloop shipwrecked near Abaco cays over the weekend. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force said the most recent body was too badly decomposed to be brought to Nassau for a funeral and will be buried in Abaco.
The League of Haitian Pastors will host a mass funeral on Sunday at the Enoch Beckford Auditorium but there will be no viewing because the bodies are too badly decomposed and it is difficult to identify some of the corpses, according to league president, Dr Jean Paul Charles...

On the day that another Haitian body washed up on shore - a female - the League of Haitian Pastors reported that they have been in contact with family members for at least 21 of the now 31 migrants who died when their sloop shipwrecked near Abaco cays over the weekend. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force said the most recent body was too badly decomposed to be brought to Nassau for a funeral and will be buried in Abaco.

The League of Haitian Pastors will host a mass funeral on Sunday at the Enoch Beckford Auditorium but there will be no viewing because the bodies are too badly decomposed and it is difficult to identify some of the corpses, according to league president, Dr Jean Paul Charles...

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