In the course of maritime interception operations, 20 Venezuelan migrants, including two minors, were safeguarded by units of the Colombian Navy when they were illegally traveling aboard two ships in waters near the Island of San Andrés.
In the course of the day, two operations were carried out that led to safeguarding the lives of migrants, after the Maritime Traffic and Surveillance Tower alerted about the suspicious displacements of motor ships to the southwest of the capital city of the Archipelago.
Rapid Reaction Units of the San Andrés Coast Guard Station were immediately deployed to the scene of the events, where crew members of the Colombian Navy intercepted the motor ships 10 and 13 nautical miles from San Andrés, finding inside 18 adults and two minors of Venezuelan nationality and four individuals of Colombian nationality.
Once verified the state of health of all crew members, it was established that the foreigners did not have the documentation proving the legal movements outside the country, which were transported to the coast Guard Station in San Andrés, where the 18 adult Venezuelans were put into custody of Migracion Colombia and the two children into custody of the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing – ICBF, for the restoration of their rights, while the four crew members of the ships and two geolocation devices were put into custody of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Attorney General's Office.
