Brazil buries bodies of migrants who drifted in African boat to Amazon

Authorities stand next to the nine coffins that contain the remains of unidentified migrants, at the Sao Jorge cemetery, in Belem, Para state, Brazil (Paulo Santos/AP)

The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried in a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem.

Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift on April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing.