The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force introduced on the finish of final week that officials discovered at the least 19 useless our bodies aboard a fishing boat that was floating off the coast of Nevis, an island within the Caribbean Sea that’s a part of the West Indies. There is no such thing as a phrase but what occurred to the individuals who had been aboard the vessel, however there are some clues.
“The St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Drive (SKNDF) Coast Guard Base acquired a report of a vessel drifting southwest of Nevis between the hours of 11AM and 12PM on January twenty ninth, 2025,” reads the press launch from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Drive. “The SKNDF responded accordingly and towed the vessel to the Coast Guard base on St. Kitts, the place it was dry-docked to facilitate additional investigation.”
“Upon arrival, Cops noticed a complete of 19 (19) deceased individuals onboard,” the press launch continues. “Preliminary assessments point out that the vessel had been at sea for a prolonged interval primarily based on their superior levels of decomposition. All occupants had been decided to have been deceased earlier than the vessel coming into St. Kitts and Nevis territorial waters. Additional, identification paperwork discovered aboard recommend that some deceased people originated from Mali, West Africa.”
Police Commissioner James Sutton told The Associated Press that officers are nonetheless making an attempt to find out the precise quantity of people that died onboard after which determine them, which is tough because of the corpses’ superior stage of decomposition. Sutton additionally supplied some perception into the boat.
“It was a fishing vessel, which isn’t usually discovered within the Caribbean,” Sutton mentioned. “We aren’t sure, however we consider that this vessel originated off the West African coast.”
See the police power’s social-media announcement in regards to the useless our bodies discovered on a random boat off the coast of Nevis right here: