More than 50 migrants died when a boat carrying about 150 people from the coast of Yemen was submerged on Sunday.
According to local officials, the vessel closed the southern province of Yemen, Abian, with only 10 people survived and dozens are still missing.
Many of the victims are believed to have Ethiopian citizens, stating that the international organization for the International Migration (IOM), which called the incident “heartbreaking”.
Yemen has become a major route for horn migrants traveling to Gulf Arab states in search of work, IOM estimates that hundreds of people have died or have gone missing in Shipavrak in recent months.
IOM Yemen head Abdusatore Associav said that the Associated Press had discovered the bodies of 54 migrants on the coast in the southern district of Khanfar, and 14 others were taken to a hospital in a hospital in the Abian Provincial capital Zinjibar.
According to the Associated Press, the Directorate of Abian Security issued a statement on the major discovery and rescue mission and said that many bodies were found in a wide area of the coastline.
A spokesman for the IOM stated that the agency was “deeply unhappy” by the “tragic loss of life” and emphasized the need for more security measures for the migrants.
He said, “This heart -wrenching event underlines the immediate need for increased security mechanisms for migrants, often facilitated by dishonest smugglers for dangerous traveling migrants, who exploit frustration and vulnerability,” he said.
The IOM first described the journey from Horn to Yemen in Africa as “one of the most busy and most dangerous mixed migration routes”.
In March, two boats carrying more than 180 migrants drowned on the banks of Dhubab district of Yemen due to rough seas, only two crew members were rescued and all the remaining passengers were expected to miss and die.
According to an IOM report, migrants arriving at the migrant response points in Yemen have deliberately reported people and samgalers to become more careless by sending boats under dangerous conditions to avoid patrolling.
Despite the risks, many migrants continue traveling, more than 60,000 arrived in Yemen alone in 2024.
In the last decade, the IOM missing migrants project recorded more than 3,400 deaths and missing people along the route – 1,400 of those deaths were due to drowning.
