68 migrants die, 74 missing in Yemen boat sinking

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 65 African migrants have died and 74 others remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, a media report said on Monday.

Al Jazeera quoted, Head of International Organization for Migrants (IOM) in Yemen Abdusattor Esoev, as saying the boat, with 154 Ethiopians aboard, capsized off Yemen’s province of Abyan.

Twelve people survived the shipwreck, he said, adding that the 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.

Earlier, Yemeni health authorities had confirmed the deaths of 54 people.

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