RBDF Marines conducting a thorough search of the Cuban migrants and their personal items aboard HMBS Lignum Vitae. Photo: Able Seaman Drissen Brennen/RBDF
EIGHT Cuban migrants have been turned over to Immigration officials after they were apprehended in Bahamian waters by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force on Thursday night, taking the total captured to 34 during July.
While on routine patrol, HMBS Lignum Vitae under the command of Acting Senior Lieutenant Valentino Rolle spotted a 20-foot makeshift aluminum motor driven vessel 45 nautical miles west of Ragged Island around 8pm.
A further search of the vessel revealed the six men and two women, who were then taken aboard the Defence Force craft.
The migrants were brought into the Coral Harbour Base shortly after 3pm on Saturday.
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