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Article: Authorities bury Haitian migrants who drowned in the British Virgin Islands
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 4, 2003
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Dateline: CAPOON'S BAY, British Virgin Islands
Authorities buried five Haitians without ceremony Tuesday, nearly
a month after they drowned in an attempt to migrate from their impoverished
Caribbean country.
The five were interred together in two caskets at a cemetery in Capoon'
s Bay, Tortola. Only a few journalists attended the dawn burial, where
construction equipment lifted and carried the caskets from a hearse