Dozens of dead, dozens are more missing after the migratory boats are drowned from Yemen

On Monday, officials of AFP told AFP on Monday that at least 76 people were killed and dozens were lost after a boat carried most of them from Ethiopian immigrants in Yemen in the last tragedy on the risk -fraught maritime road.

Yemeni security officials said that 76 bodies were recovered and that 32 people were rescued from the shipwreck in the Gulf of Aden. United Nations Immigration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), 157 people on board said.

The accident occurred off the Abyan governorate in southern Yemen, which is a repeated destination for boats that blow African immigrants in the hope of reaching the wealthy Gulf states.

A security official said that some of those who were rescued had been transferred to Aden Yemen, near Abyan.

The International Immigration Organization earlier gave at least 68 losses.

A risky trip for migrants looking for jobs

Despite the civil war that has leaked Yemen since 2014, the poor state has been a major crossing point for irregular migration, especially from Ethiopia, which was exposed to the ethnic conflict itself.

Every year, thousands of the so -called “eastern road” encouraged Djibouti to Yemen via the Red Sea, in the hope of ultimately reaching the oil -rich Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and finding work.

Hundreds of immigrants have died or disappeared in shipwrecks off Yemen in recent months, and the Associated Press has discovered.

The International Organization for Migration recorded at least 558 deaths on the Red Sea road last year, 462 of whom are accidents.

Last month, at least eight people died after the smugglers forced immigrants to get off a boat in the Red Sea, according to the International Organization for Migration.

The ship that sank Abyan was transporting most of them from Ethiopian immigrants, according to the provincial security directorate and the source of the International Financial Circles Organization.

On Sunday, the Abyan Directorate said that the Yemeni security forces were conducting operations to restore an “important” number of bodies.

On their way to the Gulf, immigrants cross the Strait of Bab Al-Mandab, the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Red Sea, which is a major road for international trade, as well as immigration-or human trafficking.

Once they arrive in the war, and the poorest of the Arabian Peninsula, immigrants often face other threats to their safety.

The International Organization for Migration says that tens of thousands of immigrants have been cut off in Yemen and suffer from abuse and exploitation during their trips.

In April, more than 60 people were killed A strike by blame the United States, which struck the migrant detention center in YemenAccording to the Houthi rebels who control many of the country.

The wealthy Gulf kings host large groups of foreign workers from South Asia and Africa.