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At least 40 migrants die and dozens are injured after their boat catches fire off the coast of Haiti, highlighting the perilous journeys Haitians undertake to escape violence and instability in their country. At least 40 migrants have died and dozens more have been injured after the boat they were travelling on caught fire just off the coast of Haiti. According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), who announced the news on Friday 19 July, the coastguard was able to rescue another 40 people. The tragedy is yet another...

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At least 40 people have died after the boat they were traveling in caught fire off the coast of Haiti earlier this week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday, citing local authorities. The vessel left Haiti on Wednesday carrying over 80 migrants, and was headed to Turks and Caicos, the IOM said. Forty-one survivors were rescued by Haiti’s Coast Guard, it also said. In a statement, Grégoire Goodstein, IOM’s chief of mission in the country, blamed the tragedy on Haiti’s spiraling security crisis and the lack of...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 19 (Reuters) - At least 40 Haitian migrants were killed at sea after gasoline-filled drums on their boat caught fire and exploded, the Miami Herald reported on Friday, citing Haitian authorities.

The migrants had lit candles using matches in a ritual meant to offer them safe passage to the Turks and Caicos islands, Jean-Henry Petit, who heads the civil protection office in northern Haiti, told the Herald.

A Vodou ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate Haitian migrants seeking a safe landing ended in tragedy after candles and matches used in the ritual set gasoline-filled drums on fire, setting off an explosion that killed at least 40 people. The tragedy unfolded around 3 a.m. Wednesday off the coast of Labadie in northern Haiti. The boat had initially departed from Fort Saint Michel, a seaside community in the city of Cap-Haïtien, near the international airport. After leaving Cap-Haïtien the boat made a stop at Picolet, off Labadie, several...

At least 40 migrants were killed when a boat they were traveling on from Haiti caught fire, a United Nations agency announced on Friday. The boat, which was carrying over 80 people, left the northern coast of Haiti on Wednesday en route for Turks and Caicos, the agency said. Another 41 migrants were rescued by the Haitian Coast Guard off the coast of Cap-Haïtien, a city in northern Haiti, the agency said, with 11 taken to a hospital. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Subscribe to The...