Migrant boat sinks in Yemen, 13 dead

Last Updated on August 26, 2024 9:21 am

At least 13 dead after boat carrying migrants capsizes off Yemen coast 14 more people are missing in this incident.

Al-Jazeera reported this information in a report on the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday (August 25).

According to the report, on August 20, a migrant boat sank off the coast of Yemen’s Taiz governorate. The stricken boat had departed from Djibouti carrying 25 Ethiopian migrants and two Yemeni nationals.

The operation to rescue the missing persons is continuing. The IOM says the dead include 11 men and two women. However, the cause of the boat sinking is still not clear, the company said.

Earlier, a boat carrying 45 migrants sank off Yemen’s Taiz coast last July. Only four people were rescued alive in that incident. In addition, at least 49 migrants died when a boat carrying 260 migrants from Somalia sank in June.

According to the AOM, thousands of migrants try to cross the Red Sea route from the countries of the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia) to the Gulf countries every year. The United Nations Migration Agency considers it ‘one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world’. In 2023, more than 97,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa came to Yemen.