Haitian migrants found dead in waters off Puerto Rico, dozens more found safe on uninhabited island

The our bodies of 5 haitian migrants had been recovered from waters close to Puerto Rico.
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The our bodies of 5 Haitian migrants had been recovered on Thursday morning from waters off Mona Island, an uninhabited land mass in between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the Coast Guard stated. 

The Coast Guard positioned 66 survivors safely on the island, together with two minors. 

Human smugglers dropped the migrants offshore on Thursday morning, the Coast Guard stated. 

An growing variety of Haitians have been making the perilous journey throughout the Caribbean in current months as gang violence grows of their nation following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse final July. 

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Ulrika Richardson stated this week that issues in Haiti are “rising as a result of poverty, lack of primary providers, together with safety, and a current spike in violence.”

From July 8-17, greater than 471 individuals had been killed, injured, or unaccounted for in Haiti, the UN stated. 

A ship sure for Miami capsized off the coast of the Bahamas on Sunday, leaving 17 Haitian migrants useless. 

This comes nearly every week after 17 Haitian migrants died when their boat capsized within the Bahamas.

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Greater than 6,100 Haitian migrants have been stopped by the Coast Guard since final October, a pointy uptick over the 1,527 Haitian migrants who had been stopped in fiscal yr 2021 and the 418 who had been stopped in fiscal yr 2020.