Police investigate vessel with 11 decomposed bodies washed ashore in Caribbean

Police person launched an probe into a vas that washed ashore connected an Eastern Caribbean island that contained quality remains of astatine slightest 11 radical successful an precocious authorities of decomposition.

The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) said it received a study astatine astir 10:45 a.m. Monday that a suspicious vas had been discovered on the coastline of the land of Canouan adjacent Little Bay and Cherry Hill.

Officers from the Canouan constabulary presumption responded and discovered the remains of 11 people connected the boat.

Police said the vessel measured 45 feet long, 12 feet wide and 6 feet deep, and it was recovered grounded successful the area.

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A vas washed ashore connected Canouan Island successful the Caribbean and contained the remains of 11 radical successful precocious stages of decomposition. (Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force)

The remains of the radical onboard were successful what constabulary called an "advanced authorities of decomposition," and immoderate of the remains were not afloat intact.

Investigators recovered respective passports from the boat, which look to beryllium from the West African state of the Republic of Mali.

While passports person been recovered, constabulary person not officially identified immoderate of the bodies, and the probe remains ongoing.

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A vas washed ashore connected Canouan Island successful the Caribbean and contained the remains of 11 radical successful precocious stages of decomposition. (Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force)

The RSVGPF said it is moving intimately with determination and planetary partners to corroborate the origins of the vessel and the identities of those onboard.

The quality remains person since been transported to the land of St. Vincent, wherever they are being held astatine the Kingstown mortuary for further forensic and investigative procedures.

"This incidental is profoundly concerning, and we recognize the public’s involvement successful the matter," constabulary said. "We guarantee you that the RSVGPF is treating this probe with the utmost seriousness and sensitivity."

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St. Vincent and the Grenadines are located successful the Eastern Caribbean, westbound of Barbados and southbound of St. Lucia. (Marica van der Meer/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The section added that it is committed to pursuing each pb and ensuring each due protocols are followed.

The U.S. State Department issued a Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory for the state of Mali successful July 2023.

The State Department’s reasoning for not traveling to the state is owed to crime, coercion and kidnapping.

"Violent crime, specified arsenic kidnapping and equipped robbery, is communal successful Mali. Violent transgression is simply a peculiar interest during section holidays and seasonal events successful Bamako, its suburbs, and Mali’s confederate regions," the advisory states. 

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"Terrorist and equipped groups proceed plotting kidnappings and attacks successful Mali," the advisory connected Mali adds. "They whitethorn onslaught with small oregon nary warning, targeting nightclubs, hotels, restaurants, places of worship, planetary diplomatic missions, and different locations frequented by foreigners. Attacks whitethorn people Malian authorities offices and infrastructure, successful summation to locations frequented by Westerners."