2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck
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2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck
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The 2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck was the loss of a motorless boat carrying Haitian migrants near the British Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern West Indies, late on the night of 26 July 2009. Sixty-five persons went missing; earlier figures of 79 missing migrants were reduced as bodies were recovered. After 2 days at least fifteen corpses had been located. The boat had spent three days at sea before it capsized. One survivor said the craft ended up on a reef while attemp
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2009 migrant boat disaster near the Turks and Caicos Islands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands_migrant_shipwreck
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2023-11-26T07:33:58Z
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