Missing migrants from Nepal
The Nepal Times reported yesterday on the high mortality rate among Nepali workers abroad. The Gulf countries and Malaysia have become “a black hole for hundreds of migrant workers who have vanished without trace over the years,” it says. Their families are helpless, and do not know whether their loved ones are dead or alive. The report estimates that the total number of missing migrant workers could well exceed the 1,334 who went missing during Nepal’s ten-year civil war. http://bit.ly/2jQn0Bb
At least 12 dead in Caribean migrant tragedy
The Miami Herald reported yesterday that Turks and Caicos authorities have recovered the bodies of 12 missing Haitian migrants in their waters after a search on Wednesday turned up one more body. The migrants died after a wooden sloop they were traveling on from Haiti capsized on Tuesday morning, sending dozens of migrants overboard. Eleven bodies were discovered Tuesday after authorities conducted a massive search…