At least three migrants are dead and 13 others are missing after a stolen boat used by human smugglers capsized in the Eastern Caribbean Sea.
Officials from the island of St. Kitts reported they rescued 14 people from Cameroon early Tuesday morning after a boat used by human smugglers capsized and sank,an AP report published by ABC News. The boat reportedly left Antigua and was headed to the U.S. Virgin Islands with 32 migrants.
Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne responded to the tragedy, saying, “My government has been making every effort to be helpful to these brothers and sisters from Africa who were marooned on Antigua, including by granting them residence and the opportunity to work.”more than 600 Cameroonian migrants were stranded in Antigua. The migrants in Antigua say they want to go to the United States to take advantage of the temporary protected status offered by the Biden administration last June.
Most of those who have unwittingly ended up in Antigua – an island some of them said they had never heard of before – say they had only expected to stay for a few days before being taken to South America, from where they had planned to make their way north to the US. Officials report the boat used in the fatal human smuggling attempt was stolen in Antigua, the ABC report added. Authorities rescued 16 people including 14 Cameroonian migrants and two Antiguans.
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