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Bogota, Colombia — A mini vessel afloat of decomposing corpses was spotted by fishermen disconnected Brazil's northeastern seashore connected Saturday, according to section news reports. Brazil's Attorney General's agency said successful a connection that it had dispatched a forensics squad to nan area to find wherever nan bodies and nan vessel came from.
"Some reports opportunity location could beryllium up to 20 corpses" successful nan boat, nan Attorney General's agency said successful a statement. The agency announced it was opening a criminal and a civilian investigation into nan incident.
The vessel was floating disconnected nan seashore of nan authorities of Para successful a distant location astir 185 miles from nan authorities superior Belem.
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It wasn't nan first clip that vessels carrying dormant bodies were spotted by fishermen successful nan occidental broadside of nan Atlantic Ocean. In 2021, astatine slightest 7 boats afloat of corpses washed up successful Brazil and nan Eastern Caribbean.
Boots are placed connected nan crushed by constabulary officers arsenic they inspect a vessel successful which 15 Malians were recovered dormant and adrift successful nan Atlantic Ocean, successful an Aug. 20, 2020 record photograph taken connected Gran Canaria island, Spain.
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Investigations by The Associated Press and section authorities wished that immoderate of these boats carried nan corpses of African migrants who were trying to make it to nan Canary Islands, but had missed their target and had drifted for weeks successful nan Atlantic Ocean.
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- Migrants
