St Kitts confirms identities of Africans killed in boating accident
Loop Information- The three West Africans killed in final month’s migrant boat accident close to St Kitts and Nevis have been recognized as Derick Anga Azia, Verdo Mofor and Zeta Bertrand.
Police confirmed the identities of the 2 males and lady, who’re from the Republic of Cameroon, yesterday.
Autopsies performed on their our bodies final week confirmed they died from mechanical asphyxia attributable to drowning.
Azia, Mofor and Bertrand had been a part of a bunch of 32 individuals who sailed from Urlings, Antigua on a stolen fishing boat en path to the US Virgin Islands on March 27.
Early on March 28, the boat encountered difficulties and capsized whereas travelling by tough waters about twelve nautical miles south of Conaree, St Kitts.
Seventeen of the 32 passengers had been rescued alive.
A vessel, which is believed to be the stolen fishing boat, was discovered close to Puerto Rico earlier this month with one physique onboard.