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Authorities successful the eastbound Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis said Thursday they are investigating the circumstances that led to the find of astatine slightest 19 bodies recovered drifting astatine sea.
At astir 11:30 a.m. connected Wednesday the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard responded to a study of a drifting vessel disconnected the seashore of Nevis. The partially submerged vessel contained decomposed quality remains. It was towed to St. Kitts, wherever constabulary and aesculapian officials are conducting investigations.
"It was a sportfishing vessel, which is not typically recovered successful the Caribbean," Police Commissioner James Sutton told The Associated Press. "We are not certain, but we judge that this vas originated disconnected the West African coast."
Sutton said officials present look the hard task of determining the nonstop fig of bodies and identifying them. The precocious authorities of decomposition, helium said, has made it difficult.
This is the archetypal specified find successful caller representation successful the twin-island nation.
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