(EFE).- A total of 253 migrants from Haiti are cared for by local authorities and the Red Cross after their boat – which was destined for the United States – stopped in the province of Ciego de Ávila due to “bad weather”, they reported this Tuesday official media.
The Haitians are in good health and are temporarily housed in a school, a place where officials from the provincial government went. Of the total number of people treated, 61 are women and 31 are minors, according to the newspaper. Invasive.
The Cuban Red Cross also assisted the rafters.
The island’s official media assured that “contact has been established with the highest Cuban authorities to ensure the organized, safe and voluntary return to the country of origin” of the migrants.
This is the second time this year that a group of Haitians has arrived in Ciego de Ávila after their boat diverted en route to the United States.
This is the second time this year that a group of Haitians has arrived in Ciego de Ávila after their boat diverted en route to the United States.
Last February, 292 migrants from that country, including 56 minors, who were sailing in a “precarious boat”, landed in Cayo Paredón.
On that occasion, cubadebate reported that the boat was in the water for five days and that “they must have sailed about 400 miles, until they ended up landing on the Ciego de Avila coast.”
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