International Organization for Migration by way of AP
The tragedy was the most recent in a collection of shipwrecks off Yemen which have killed lots of of African migrants hoping to succeed in the rich Gulf Arab international locations.
The vessel, with 154 Ethiopian migrants on board, sank off the southern province of Abyan early Sunday, Abdusattor Esoev, head of the International Organization for Migration in Yemen informed The Associated Press.
He mentioned the our bodies of 54 migrants washed ashore within the district of Khanfar, and 14 others had been discovered useless and brought to a hospital morgue in Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan on Yemen’s southern coast.
Only 12 migrants survived the shipwreck, and the remainder had been lacking and presumed useless, Esoev mentioned.
Despite greater than a decade of civil battle, Yemen is a serious route for migrants from East Africa and the Horn of Africa making an attempt to succeed in the Gulf Arab international locations for work. Migrants are taken by smugglers on usually harmful, overcrowded boats throughout the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden.
Hundreds of migrants have died or gone lacking in shipwrecks off Yemen in latest months, together with in March when two migrants died and 186 others had been lacking after 4 boats capsized off Yemen and Djibouti, based on the IOM.
