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Tens of thousands of workers trapped on cruise ships became desperate due to the coronavirus pandemic, so in the past 10 days, some of them committed suicide and others started a hunger strike to reach the mainland and then their homes.
Since May 2, when it started, the death toll has not stopped.
Two employees committed suicide, one fell from the deck of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship “Jewl of the Seas” into the ocean in still unexplained circumstances, and the last died three days ago, as the company says, of natural causes.
“A man committed suicide on the ‘Carnival Breeze’ ship sailing from the Bahamas to Europe, and a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman jumped with ‘Regal Princes’. Another employee died the same day, but under natural circumstances. He worked at the Royal Caribbean. Marines of the Seas, “write the US media.
Meanwhile, 14 crew members started a hunger strike on Royal Caribbean’s second cruise ship “Navigator of the Seas”.
“Right now, we feel like we are all hostages,” said one crew member on a ship anchored in Miami.
“The company needs to understand that we are not boxes of food that can be used to do anything,” the media reported.
The cruise industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus epidemic and all cruises have been anchored since March 13.
While the passengers disembarked despite numerous difficult circumstances, thousands of workers were trapped in the ocean, among other things due to bureaucratic difficulties.
More than 100 ships with 70,000 crew members are still anchored in U.S. waters alone, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to AFP last week.
Suicides on cruise ships are not uncommon, even under normal circumstances, and there have been cases of them committed by people from Serbia, Montenegro …
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