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Smugglers throw 300 people into Yemen sea

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Dubai: At least 56 migrants drowned and 13 went missing on Thursday when smugglers forced 300 Africans off a boat bound for Yemen, a day after a similar incident left 50 dead, the International Organization for Migration said.


Twenty-five people were being treated for injuries on a beach on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the UN migration agency said.


It could not immediately confirm the nationalities of the casualties.


Despite a war that has left over 8,300 people dead since March 2015, Yemen continues to draw migrants from the Horn of Africa seeking work in the Gulf countries further north.


On Wednesday, human traffickers also forced more than 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into rough seas off Yemen to avoid arrest by local authorities, leaving at least 50 dead and 22 missing, the IOM said.


IOM teams, working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, found the bodies of 29 migrants in shallow graves along the coast of the southern Shabwa province.


They had been buried by survivors.


The average age of those on the boat was 16. — AFP


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