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40 MIGRANTS DEAD AFTER BOAT CATCHES FIRE OFF HAITI

July 19, 2024 2:52 PM
 * By Agence France-Presse

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At least 40 migrants have died and several others were injured after a boat they
were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said
Friday.

The UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that the
Haitian Coast Guard rescued 41 survivors, 11 of whom were hospitalized,
including some for burns.

But "at least 40 migrants have died, and several others were injured," the IOM
said.

The boat, carrying more than 80 people, had left the port of Labadee on
Wednesday en route to the Turks and Caicos Islands, a 150-mile (240-kilometer)
journey, the IOM reported, citing Haiti's National Office for Migration.

There was no immediate information on the cause of the fire.
Migration from the poverty-stricken Caribbean country has been surging for
months, as thousands of people flee a spike in violence from criminal gangs that
now control wide swaths of territory.

"Haiti's socioeconomic situation is in agony," said Gregoire Goodstein, IOM's
chief of mission in the country. "The extreme violence over the past months has
only brought Haitians to resort to desperate measures even more."

Hundreds of police officers from Kenya have deployed in Haiti's capital
Port-au-Prince, part of an international effort to bring stability to a country
riven by political, social and economic chaos.

Criminal gangs now control 80% of the capital city, with residents saying they
have faced murder, rape, theft and kidnapping for ransom.

Since February 29, Haitian Coast Guard units in the north have observed an
increasing number of departures by boat, the IOM said.

Countries including the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands
and Jamaica say they have intercepted a growing number of boats originating from
Haiti.

More than 86,000 migrants have been forcibly returned to Haiti by neighboring
countries this year, according to the IOM.


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