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A one-year-old baby who was traveling with his mother from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago was found dead in a boat that was intercepted on Saturday night with shots fired by the coast guard of the Caribbean archipelago .
According to the Venezuelan human rights activist Orlando Moreno, who was in contact with relatives of the mother, the child’s death was provoked by one of the shots.
The mother was shot between her chest and the clavicle and was stable at the Sangre Grande hospital on the island of Trinidad waiting for a traumatologist to confirm the seriousness of his injuries, Moreno reported to BBC Mundo.
The Coast Guard of Trinidad and Tobago acknowledged in a statement that they had “shot the engines” of the boat, although not their responsibility in the death from the menu or.
According to the version of the authorities, the vessel that intended to Arriving at the island, he rammed the patrol boat several times and, “because the crew feared for their lives,” he fired at the engines “in self-defense” to stop it.
“Just then it was discovered that there were illegal migrants on board who had remained hidden and, therefore, had not been seen before,” he added.
The coast guard said they later found a woman “holding an infant and claiming to be bleeding.” “The baby was found to be unresponsive”, he maintained.
In addition to the woman and her son, there were others on the boat 17 people who were detained and taken to the Chaguaramas military heliport, Moreno said.
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