UN says 186 missing and at least two people died after the collapse of migrant ships in Yemen and Djibouti
At least two people died and another 186 were missing. Four ships carried migrants from Africa capsized in the Waters in Yemen and Djibouti and Waters in Jibouti, the UN immigration agency said Friday.
Tamim Eleian, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration or IOM, said two ships were tilted on Yemen late Thursday. He told the Associated Press that two crew members were rescued, but 181 immigrants and five Yemeni crew members were missing.
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The ship on a ship was tilted by Yemen, killing two people and missing 186 people. (Planet Observer/Universal Images through Get image photography)
He said that around the same time, two other ships tilted in the small country of Djibouti. The bodies of two immigrants were found and all other immigrants were rescued.
Abdusattor Esoev, head of the IOM mission in Yemen, told the Associated Press that two boats capsized near the beach in Djibouti after strong winds began sailing in Djibouti.
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East African immigrants working on a wheat plantation in Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
The third ship is tilted in the Dubab area of Taz province, southwestern Yemen, carrying 31 Ethiopian immigrants and three Yemeni crew members.
The fourth ship leaned near the same area and headed to the Ahwar district of Abyan Province, carrying 150 Ethiopian immigrants and 4 Yemeni crew members.
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Immigrants were taken away by smugglers on overcrowded ships in the Red Sea. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu via Getty Image)
Yemen is a major way for immigrants from East Africa and the African Eagle to try to reach the Gulf countries, which hundreds of thousands of times a year have been tried. To reach Yemen, immigrants were taken away by smugglers, often on dangerous, overcrowded ships in the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden.
The number of people handing it to Yemen reached 97,200 in 2023, which is the number for 2021. Last year, the figure dropped to less than 61,000, possibly due to a larger patrol in the waters this month.
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According to IOM, at least 2,082 immigrants along the route have disappeared over the past decade, including 693 who are known to drown. There are currently about 380,000 immigrants in Yemen.
