Update | Dead stowaways on JetBlue flight not Jamaicans

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Kamina Johnson Smith says the two deceased stowaways recently discovered in the wheel well of an aircraft in Fort Lauderdale are not Jamaicans.

"Further information received now indicates that the individuals are not Jamaican. We still, however, await formal reports as investigations continue," Johnson Smith said in a post on social media platform X.

The two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue aircraft in the United States on Monday night. Though its most recent flight was from New York to Fort Lauderdale, the jet had been in both Kingston, Jamaica, and Salt Lake City, Utah, earlier on Monday, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.com.

The plane's stop in Jamaica gave rise to speculation that the people could be Jamaican.

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