At least three people They diedThere are two more people, including two minors, and two people are missing. One of the boats carrying migrants capsized in Colombia’s Urabá Bay this monday.
The boat was traveling with 40 passengers and “thanks to the support of the community Rescue 35 people alive and remove three bodies, The Colombian Navy said in a statement that they included an adult woman and two children. Rescue efforts continue to find two people still missing.
The boat, a legal means of transportation, traveled from Turbo in Antioquia, on the east side of the gulf, to Acandí in Chocó, where the migrants began their perilous journey through the Darién jungle that separates Colombia from Central America. Boat Capsized due to heavy waves According to social leader Emigdio Partúz from the Cocomanorte Community Council, in the Titumate region near Unguia, more attention from the government has been requested to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis experienced by this region due to the high influx of immigrants. “The anger of a government that is not taking measures to protect immigrants is frustrating,” the Afro-Colombian leader said.
According to Panamanian authorities, the number of people crossing this dangerous mountainous forest last year broke a record and doubled compared to the previous year. More than 520,000 people crossed the Darién Pass. Of this total, 328,650 were Venezuelans, 57,250 Ecuadorians, 46,422 Haitians, 25,565 Chinese and 18,841 Colombians.
According to the information announced by the Ombudsman Institution last week, 15 thousand 588 people, including 2 thousand 647 boys and girls, have already passed through this route in the first 15 days of this year. During their up to a week-long journey through the jungle, these people face natural dangers such as animal bites, river floods or lack of food and drinking water, but they also have a high presence of criminal gangs that subjugate them. robberies, rapes and even murders.
According to data from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), at least 676 migrants, mostly women, were victims of sexual violence in the Darién Gap last year.