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CAIRO — A ship capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants lifeless and 74 others lacking, the U.N.’s migration company stated.
The tragedy was the most recent in a sequence of shipwrecks off Yemen which have killed lots of of African migrants fleeing battle and poverty in hopes of reaching the rich Gulf Arab nations.
The vessel, with 154 Ethiopian migrants on board, sank within the Gulf of Aden off the southern Yemeni province of Abyan early Sunday, Abdusattor Esoev, head of the Worldwide Group for Migration in Yemen informed The Related Press.
He stated the our bodies of 54 migrants washed ashore within the district of Khanfar, and 14 others had been discovered lifeless and brought to a hospital morgue in Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan on Yemen’s southern coast.
Solely 12 migrants survived the shipwreck, and the remaining had been lacking and presumed lifeless, Esoev stated.
In a press release, the Abyan safety directorate described an enormous search-and-rescue operation given the big variety of lifeless and lacking migrants. It stated many lifeless our bodies had been discovered scattered throughout a large space of the shore.
Regardless of greater than a decade of civil warfare, Yemen is a serious route for migrants from East Africa and the Horn of Africa attempting to achieve the Gulf Arab nations for work. Migrants are taken by smugglers on typically harmful, overcrowded boats throughout the Crimson Sea or Gulf of Aden.
A whole lot of migrants have died or gone lacking in shipwrecks off Yemen in current months, together with in March when two migrants died and 186 others had been lacking after 4 boats capsized off Yemen and Djibouti, in accordance with the IOM.
Greater than 60,000 migrants arrived in Yemen in 2024, down from 97,200 in 2023, most likely due to higher patrolling of the waters, in accordance with an IOM report in March.
