Four years af­ter a boat car­ry­ing 14 de­com­posed bod­ies drift­ed ashore in Belle Gar­den, To­ba­go, the fam­i­ly of the on­ly man for­mal­ly iden­ti­fied says they’ve made peace with the tragedy.

“We have all ac­cept­ed it. We are peo­ple of faith,” said the aunt of 30-year-old Alas­sane Sow, who was buried in Trinidad in March 2023.

In a mes­sage to Guardian Me­dia via What­sApp, Sow’s aunt, Mau Sow—com­mu­ni­cat­ing in French us­ing a trans­la­tor—said his moth­er, who lives in Mali, has nev­er vis­it­ed his grave be­cause au­thor­i­ties de­nied her a visa.