Afghan Migrants Drown As Boat Capsizes Off Panama               

VANCOUVER, CANADA – Five migrants were dead with search ongoing for another missing individual after a boat capsized off Panama in the Caribbean sea on Wednesday, February 14.

According to the Associated Press, the Public Safety Ministry of Panama reported on Thursday that the boat was transporting 27 people most of whom were migrants from Afghanistan. The boat capsized near the Guna Yala Indigenous area, trying to avoid the Darien Gap, which is considered a dangerous land route for migrants and human traffickers.