UN says 68 African migrants have been killed when boat capsized off Yemen – Nationwide

No less than 68 African migrants died and 74 others have been lacking after their boat capsized Sunday within the waters off Yemen, the U.N.’s migration company mentioned.

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Abdusattor Esoev, head of the Worldwide Group for Migration in Yemen instructed The Related Press that the boat, with 154 Ethiopian migrants, capsized off Yemen’s province of Abyan.

Twelve migrants survived the shipwreck, he mentioned, including that the our bodies of 54 migrants washed ashore within the district of Khanfar and 14 others have been discovered useless at a distinct location and brought to a hospital morgue.