(20 Apr 2024)
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Camaguey, Cuba – 19 April 2024
1. Various of Sunrise airline aircraft on the runway
2. People getting off the plane on the runway
3. Mother hugs and kisses her daughter, relatives hugging
4. People entering the airport
5. People queue up and a nurse measures their temperature
6. People at customs control
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mirtha Cobas, evacuated, lives in Havana:
“I went (to Haiti) as a tourist and on the 29th of February it was inside the airport, I didn’t feel shots or anything but they said there was a situation and that the plane wasn’t going to fly and from there they took me to the house (for the rent).”
5. Various of people at immigration control
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mirtha Cobas, evacuated living in Havana:
“I always knew that I was going to have the support of my country, of several people and that I was going to return.”
7. People are checked by doctors
8. People at immigration control
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Albert Borges, evacuated living in Granma:
“For a moment I thought I was not going to return to Cuba. The experience was a bit unpleasant because you are in a country that is not your own and you find yourself in a conflict. A country that has a conflict between gangs is a bit difficult to be there.”
10. Baggage check
11. People leaving the airport
12. Various of baggage, people getting on the bus
STORYLINE:
A flight carrying 49 Cubans who had been stranded in neighbouring Haiti arrived Friday at an airport in the central city of Camagüey, the first of an evacuation airlift that will last through the weekend.
The Sunrise flight using a One Caribbean airliner arrived at the Ignacio Agramonte terminal in Camaguey province, some 500 kilometres east of the capital, with Cuban nationals who had travelled for shopping tourism.
The Cubans had been trapped by gang violence in that nation, including gunfire on passenger planes at the Port-au-Prince airport they took over in March.
This group of evacuees was transported from Port-au-Prince by road to Cap-Haïtien from where the take-off took place.
A total of 254 Cubans – 178 women and 76 men – are expected to arrive between Saturday and Sunday. On the latter day, a flight will also land in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry indicated that Cuban diplomats, as well as doctors and specialists from a cooperation mission working in neighbouring Haiti, will stay there.
Last week it was reported that a transitional council was to be set up to elect a prime minister and cabinet in Haiti, in an attempt to calm the situation of gang violence in the nation.
More than 1,550 murders were recorded in the Caribbean nation, with more than 820 people injured, from January to 22 March, according to the UN.
While the gangs have been operating for some time, gunmen organised large-scale attacks since 29 February.
They burned police barracks, fired on the country’s main international airport, which remains closed, and stormed Haiti’s two largest prisons, from which they released more than 4,000 inmates.
AP Video by Osvaldo Angulo and Milexsy Durán
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