Venezuelan families seek answers over migrants missing at sea

FILE PHOTO: Children play on the beach shore of 'La Salina' area from where Maroly Bastardo, an eight months pregnant woman, along with her children, her husband's sister, uncle and father, boarded a smuggler's boat and disappeared in the Caribbean Sea during an attempt to cross from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago, in Guiria, Venezuela, May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo

CARACAS (Reuters) - The families of Venezuelan migrants lost in the Caribbean sea are demanding their government investigate the disappearance of their loved ones after years of stasis.

At least 150 people have gone missing in connection with a series of vessels which have sunk between Venezuela's north coast and islands in the Caribbean since 2015, according to the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.