Nicaraguan authorities said yesterday the bodies of six people, apparently migrants, have been found in a small boat drifting off its Caribbean coast, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The Interior Ministry said a Republic of Guinea passport belonging to a 31-year-old man was found on one of the bodies. The passport had no Nicaraguan entry stamp in it.
AP said that the boat was found drifting about a mile (1 1/2 kilometers) out to sea on Monday near Cayo Las Palomas.
The corpses were all too badly decomposed for immediate identification. The ministry said an initial examination indicates all those aboard apparently died of dehydration or heatstroke, and that they probably died about a month ago.
Several weeks ago a boat with bodies was detected in Guyana’s water but the authorities lost sight of it.
