At least 68 refugees and migrants have died and 74 others remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to the United Nations migration agency.
Abdusattor Esoev, head of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen, said over the weekend that the boat, with 154 Ethiopians aboard, capsized off Yemen’s province of Abyan.
Furthermore, he added that twelve people survived the shipwreck but bodies of 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.
Abdul Qader Bajamil, director of the health office in Zanzibar, said that authorities were making arrangements to bury the victims near the city of Shaqra, while search opportunities continued amid difficult conditions.