Boat carrying Haitian migrants capsizes off Bahamas, 17 dead
By DW
27 July 2022 |
5:22 am
The bodies of 17 people — including an infant — were recovered after a boat carrying migrants from Haiti keeled over off the coast of the Bahamas.
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