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Brazil asks help from Bahamas in search of missing nationals

Xinhua, December 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Brazilian government will reiterate its request for help from the Bahamas government in search of a group of Brazilians who went missing as they tried to enter the United States illegally, Brazilian media reported Tuesday.

"We will request the assistance of the Bahamian frontier police and the United States Coast Guard," said Marisa Barinske, a Brazilian diplomat based in Nassau, the capital of Bahamas.

These Brazilian people left Bahamas for the U.S. coast by boat in November. Their families, after losing contact with them, sought help from the Brazilian government.

Barinske said there has so far been no information about their boat, nor their possible arrest in the United States.

Recently, another group of Brazilians using the same illegal immigration route were arrested in the United States. Endi