They investigate the mysterious discovery of 20 bodies on a ship in the Caribbean Sea

Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands are investigating the mysterious find of 20 unidentified bodies found on a boat in the waters of the small Caribbean territory.

Turks and Caicos Islands Police Commissioner Trevor Botting told a press conference that the ship would have departed from outside the Caribbean region and that neither the Turks and Caicos Islands nor the region was his destination.

“Investigators are working to establish their identity and how they were killed,” the official said.

“This work will take some time. Whatever the circumstances, this it’s a tragic situation in which many people lost their lives, ”he said.

“We will do our best to identify them and contact their families,” the police chief said.

Commissioner Botting added that this incident was a very heartbreaking human tragedy.

They investigate the cause of death

“An investigation is underway to establish their identity, the cause of death and the circumstances which led to their discovery in the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands,” he said.

The civil servant gave no idea where the boat might have left nor of the nationality of the deceased.

The discovery in the Turks and Caicos Islands follows that of last May in the region, when an artisanal fishing boat was located adrift off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago in which 14 bodies of people who left the Mauritania have been found on the African continent.

The vessel was located on May 28, 4 nautical miles from the coast of the town of Belle Garden, on the island of Tobago.

At the end of April, a dozen Venezuelan citizens died trying to reach Trinidad and Tobago.

In recent times, the irregular arrival of Venezuelan citizens to the coast of Trinidad and Tobago has been common.

Source EFE