More than 50 refugees and migrants die in boats that are drowned off the Yemeni coast Human trafficking news

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Local authorities say the rescue operations are continuing to find dozens more missing.

At least 54 African and immigrants died, and dozens remain missing after a boat turned off the coast of Yemen, according to the health authorities in Abyan Governorate in the south of the country.

Abdel -Qader Bagamel, director of the health office in Zanzibar, said on Sunday that the rescue teams have recovered 54 bodies of the beaches there and the surrounding areas, while 12 survivors were transferred to the Shuqira Hospital.

The boat carrying approximately 150 people, most of them from Ethiopia, turned in the Arab sea off the coast of Al -Shaqira, in the Abyan Governorate, due to strong winds on Saturday evening.

Bagil noted that the authorities were conducting arrangements to bury the victims in an area near the city, while the searches continued amid difficult circumstances.

The waterways between Yemen and the African century are A common, but fraught with risks For refugees and migrants who travel in both directions. The region witnessed a rise in Yemenis fleeing the country after the outbreak of the civil war in 2014.

The rebels and the Houthi government forces reached a truce deal in April 2022, which led to a decrease in violence and the slight mitigation of the continuous humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

Meanwhile, some of the escape from the conflict in Africa, especially in Somalia and Ethiopia, resorted to Yemen or sought to travel across the country to the most prosperous Gulf states. The road remains one of the “most crowded and most dangerous” migration methods in the world, according to the United Nations Immigration Organization (IOM).

To reach Yemen, people are taken by smugglers often dangerous, Crowded boats Through the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.

According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 60,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen in 2024, which represents a significant decrease from a total of 97,200 years.

Low numbers come amid increasing water patrols, according to the IOM report issued in May.

This is a deadly road that has killed hundreds over the past two years. According to the International Organization for Migration, 558 people died along the last public road.

Over the past decade, at least 2082 people have disappeared along the road, including 693 known that they had drowned, according to the International Organization for Migration. Yemen is currently grateful about 380,000 refugees and migrants.