49 migrants dead, 140 missing after boat capsizes off Yemen: UN migration agency
A boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing 49 migrants and leaving 140 others missing, the International Organization for Migration or IOM said on Tuesday.
The vessel, carrying 260 migrants, capsized near Alghareef Point in Shabwah governorate.
Among the dead were 31 women and six children.
According to survivors, the boat departed from Bosaso in Somalia carrying 115 Somali nationals and 145 Ethiopians, with 90 women among them.
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