SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian federal prosecutors workplace and Para state’s federal police stated in statements on Saturday that they may open investigations following experiences of a ship discovered with decomposed our bodies off the coast of the northern Brazilian state.
Federal police say consultants and forensic groups have been deployed to the distant space.
“One of many essential targets is to seek out out who the folks on the boat have been, utilizing Catastrophe Sufferer Identification protocols”, the assertion stated.
The quantity, nationality and reason behind demise of the victims is just not but identified, federal police confirmed.
Brazilian federal prosecutors workplace stated that some native Para information experiences declare there may very well be as much as 20 our bodies on the boat and that they have been Haitian migrants. Reuters has been unable to independently confirm this info.
The boat was discovered by fishermen in an space generally known as Barra do Quatipuru, close to Ajuruteua seaside in Braganca, within the north-east of the state.
Movies have been circulating on social media which allegedly present the fishermen making the invention of the adrift boat.
Native police and authorities didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.