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a566: Bahamas Defence Force finds another group of Haitians (fwd)
From: Daniel Schweissing <dan_schweissing@hotmail.com>
Defence Force find another group of Hatians
Released Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 10:42 am EST by LaKeisha McSweeney
Defence Force find another group of Hatians
By LaKEISHA McSWEENEY
Guardian Staff Reporter
Forty-seven more Haitians were nabbed by the Royal Bahamian Defence Force
yesterday while trying
to enter The Bahamas illegally.
The 36 men, eight women and three children were intercepted by the
soldiers who were on routine
patrol on the vessel HMBS P-43 eight miles west of Hall Pond Cay, in the
Exumas. This was the fourth
time for the year that Haitians were caught trying to come here.
According to a release sent from the Defence Force, officers boarded the
28-ft sunken vessel and made
the arrest shortly after 9 a.m.
The Haitians, who were transferred to another vessel, the P-43, arrived at
HMBS Coral Harbour Base
on Tuesday afternoon and were turned over to Immigration officials.
This new group brings the total number of Haitians captured so far this
year to 414. The first group of
237 was captured on January 3.
Just last week the second group of 93 Haitians were apprehended. During
their capture and rescue
from the sunken sloop, four other Haitian women.
A day later, Defence Force divers retrieved the bodies of ten more
Haitians - seven males and three
females who were apparently trapped in the sunken vessel.
Last Friday, 37 Haitians were captured in the vicinity of Nassau Harbour
attempting to enter the
country without proper documentation.
The total number of Haitians captured by the Defence Force so far this
year is 535.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Nassau Guardian
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