At the least 40 migrants have died and several other extra have been injured after the boat they have been travelling on caught fireplace off the coast of Haiti, the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) stated in an announcement on Friday (19.07.2024).
The boat, carrying greater than 80 individuals, left Labadee on Wednesday sure for the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory about 250 kilometres to the north.
The Haitian Coast Guard rescued 41 individuals from the boat, of whom 11 have been hospitalized.
“This devastating occasion highlights the dangers confronted by youngsters, ladies and men who migrate by irregular routes and exhibits the essential want for authorized and protected pathways for migration,” stated Grégoire Goodstein, IOM’s chief of mission in Haiti, within the assertion.
“Haiti’s socio-economic state of affairs is dire. The acute violence of latest months has solely pushed Haitians to take much more determined measures,” he added.
Haiti, the poorest nation within the Americas, has lengthy suffered the scourge of felony gangs that management 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the primary nationwide highways.
Based on IOM, the Haitian Coast Guard has noticed an rising variety of makes an attempt to depart by boat to the north.
This 12 months, greater than 86,000 migrants have been forcibly returned to Haiti by neighbouring international locations, says the IOM, which is anxious about their return in “this era of unrest and uncertainty.”
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