Dozens of fleeing Somalians drown
More than 60 migrants drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen during an attempt to flee their war-torn homeland of Somalia, a Yemeni security official said.
Twenty-five others survived by reaching Redhoum on Yemen’s southern shore after their boat went down in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, the security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The official said it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the accident.
The U.N. refugee agency has reported that at least 439 migrants have died while crossing the Gulf of Aden this year, and at least another 489 are listed as missing.
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