Sto­ry by RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA (rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt)

The Ce­dros Se­cu­ri­ty Com­plex is now un­der lock­down and over two dozen of­fi­cers from the Ce­dros Coast Guard Base, Im­mi­gra­tion de­part­ment and po­lice are un­der quar­an­tine.

This, af­ter Coast Guard of­fi­cers res­cued a boat­load of Venezue­lans from a sink­ing pirogue who were ex­hibit­ing flu-like symp­toms.

A source said around 1 am, five of­fi­cers on board a Coast Guard in­ter­cep­tor spot­ted a pirogue in ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters off the coast of Ica­cos. The oc­cu­pants ap­peared to be in dan­ger as the boat was sink­ing.

The of­fi­cers res­cued all of the oc­cu­pants and they were tak­en to the Ch­aguara­mas Base. The Ce­dros of­fi­cers then re­turned to the Ce­dros base, which had over two dozen of­fi­cers from dif­fer­ent arms of law en­force­ment, as well as sev­er­al MTS clean­ers.

News lat­er spread that the Venezue­lans on board the pirogue were suf­fer­ing from flu-like symp­toms.

Of­fi­cials in­struct­ed that all of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing the clean­ers, re­main at the Ce­dros base un­til test kits could be sent for test­ing.

It is un­cer­tain where the Venezue­lans were sent.

Guardian Me­dia will bring you more as this sto­ry un­folds.