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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

14 bodies pulled from boat found in Tobago waters

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Guardian Media
1362 days ago
20210528
The removal of the bodies in Belle Gardeb, Tobago.

The removal of the bodies in Belle Gardeb, Tobago.

Courtesy the Tobago Emergency Management Authority.

Po­lice say 14 bod­ies were re­moved from a ves­sel that was found adrift off the coast of To­ba­go this morn­ing.

The fol­low­ing is a state­ment by the Po­lice Ser­vice:

“Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 14 bod­ies, a skull and skele­tal re­mains, stacked in a boat which was found float­ing four miles off Belle Gar­den, To­ba­go, this morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 6:30 am on May 28th, fish­er­men Doyle and Lance Big­gart, 48, of Pem­broke, whilst fish­ing off Belle Gar­den, spot­ted a strange ves­sel.

Up­on in­ves­ti­gat­ing, the fish­er­men found the de­com­posed bod­ies. The fish­er­men then con­tact­ed the Po­lice and the Coast Guard.

The fish­er­men pulled the ves­sel ashore at the Belle Gar­den Bay. The bod­ies, all men, were in an ad­vanced state de­com­po­si­tion. The bod­ies were even­tu­al­ly re­moved to the mor­tu­ary at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal to await iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and sub­se­quent au­top­sies to de­ter­mine the caus­es of death.

Vis­it­ing the scene were ACP William Nurse, Supt Kirk, ASP Matthews, In­spec­tor Prince and of­fi­cers of Homi­cide and Char­lot­teville and Rox­bor­ough po­lice CID. The en­tire area was cor­doned off as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.”


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