United Nations migration agency has said that at least 68 African refugees and migrants have died and 74 others remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen.
Head of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen ,Abdusattor Esoev, told newsmen that the boat, with 154 Ethiopians aboard, capsized off Yemen’s province of Abyan.
Esoev, says that twelve people survived the shipwreck,54 refugees and migrants washed ashore in the district of Khanfar and 14 others were found dead at a different location and taken to a hospital morgue.
Director of the health office in Zanzibar,Abdul Qader Bajamil, says that authorities were making arrangements to bury the victims near the city of Shaqra, while search opportunities continued.