Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney
(CNN Spanish) – A group of migrants (68 Cubans and one person from Sri Lanka) was rescued in a rocky area of the Panamanian Pacific, in the Darien region, after being abandoned, according to their testimony, by coyotes who left them in Cucaracha beach, in Colombia, reported the National Border Service of Panama (Senafront) on Friday afternoon.
In a statement, the institution detailed that these migrants were found by border agents on the Panamanian side, near the binational landmark with Colombia, and that the group included 39 women and 16 children.
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With the support of residents of Guayabo, which is the next community in Jaqué, Darién, the migrants were taken from the place, all safe, although dehydrated after four days in that area of cliffs.
The statement added that the migrants were transferred to a health center in Jaqué to offer them medical care.
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The rescue of the group coincides with the fact that the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Panama confirmed to CNN that 12 bodies found last week in Darien correspond to Afro-descendants, presumably drowned migrants. They are seven men and five women, one of them a teenager and the other a child. The Public Ministry has been conducting an investigation into this case since last week.
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