US EditionUN says 68 African migrants were killed when boat capsized off Yemen
ABYAN PROVINCE, YEMEN, AUG 3 – A smuggling boat sank off Yemen's Abyan coast with 68 dead and 74 missing among 154 Ethiopian migrants, prompting large-scale rescue and recovery operations, the UN migration agency said.
- A boat carrying 154 Ethiopian migrants capsized off Yemen's southern coast on Sunday, August 3, killing 68 and leaving 74 missing.
- The migrants were escaping violence and hardship in East Africa, aiming to work in affluent Gulf Arab nations by traveling on overcrowded smuggler-operated vessels.
- The Abyan security directorate launched a massive search-and-rescue operation recovering 54 bodies in Khanfar and 14 in Zinjibar, while 12 survivors received hospital treatment.
- Abdusattor Esoev, head of IOM Yemen, stated that the remaining migrants are presumed dead and that Yemen has seen hundreds of migrant deaths in recent shipwrecks.
- Authorities have called on local and global organizations to take urgent action to stop illegal migration through Yemeni waters, as the country continues to endure a prolonged civil war and a severe humanitarian emergency.
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At least 76 people have died and dozens are missing after a boat carrying mainly Ethiopian migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, the latest tragedy on this dangerous migrant route.
At least 68 African refugees died and about 74 remain missing after a ship was shipwrecked on Sunday off the coast of Yemen. READ ALSO: At least 60 migrants remain missing after shipwrecks off the coast of Libya According to the Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen, Abdusattor Esoev, at the time of the accident, the ship transported 154 refugees and migrants. Yemeni health authorities previously reported that 5…
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Omaha World-HeraldAt least 68 migrants die when boat capsizes
CAIRO — At least 68 African migrants died and 74 others were missing after their boat capsized Sunday in the waters off Yemen, the U.N.'s migration agency said.
Most of the victims were people of Ethiopian origin who were trying to reach the Arabian peninsula by sea. Dozens are still missing and only 12 survivors have been rescued.
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