AN Inagua-based fisherman yesterday described the “traumatising” moment that a group of stranded Haitians that he and his two friends were helping allegedly hijacked their boat at knifepoint and forced them to jump overboard to avoid being killed. Lawrence Handfield, 49, said that he, Quinton Smith and Eddington Burrows Jr were all forced to abandon their fishing vessel to avoid being injured, fatally or otherwise, by 10 knife-wielding Haitian men they were transporting to another location on the island. Mr Handfield said as a result, he and his two friends were forced to swim for at least a mile to get to land, and then when they made it to shore safely, they spent four hours walking for miles before they made contact with locals. “They was trying to kill us, because they was swinging (the machetes),” Mr Handfield told The Tribune of their assailants. “They was trying to kill us.

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