Seventy Ethiopian migrants have drowned after their boat
sank near the entrance to the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, the Yemeni
Interior Ministry said.
The boat capsized in bad weather off the port city of
Al-Makha, near the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, the ministry said in a statement
posted on its website Sunday. It did not clarify when the boat sank.
“All those who were on board died,” the statement said,
adding that all were from Ethiopia.
Thousands of people fleeing troubled countries
in the Horn of Africa try to reach Yemen every year in the hope of making their
way on to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.Source: The News.
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