CARACAS, WILLEMSTAD - In Venezuela it is feared that a boat with 40 people who left for Curaçao last weekend, never arrived and would have capsized at sea.

Residents of the La Vela area raised the alarm because they fear that the people on the boat were killed.

It would be about 40 people from the area who tried to arrive in Curaçao illegally. Yesterday a body of a man was found in the water, which might have come from the boat.