KINGSTON, Jamaica — Preliminary investigations suggest that the two dead stowaways found in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane after it landed at a Florida airport are not Jamaicans.

The revelation was made by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith on social media platform X on Thursday morning.

“Further information received, now indicates that the individuals are not Jamaican. We still, however, await formal reports as investigations continue,” the minister said.

According to US media reports, the bodies of the two individuals were badly decomposed when they were found in the airplane’s landing gear compartment by airport staff on Monday night.

The bodies were discovered during a post-flight maintenance inspection after it operated as Flight 1801 from John F Kennedy International Airport in New York to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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The flight had departed Jamaica earlier in the day, leading speculation that the deceased were Jamaicans.