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iciHaiti - Shipwreck : 159 Haitians rescued east of the Turks and Caicos Islands
18/01/2021 09:57:15

On Friday, a US Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, specializing in search and rescue, spotted a wooden sailing boat stranded on the reefs, about 13 miles east of the Turks and Caicos Islands, overloaded with illegal migrants, several of whom were in the sea...

Alerted, the national navy of the islands went to the scene to carry out the rescue.

Results 159 people of Haitian origin have been rescued safe and sound and no body has been recovered after searches carried out in the area, whose waters are transparent and shallow, according to the US Coast Guard.

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