More than 50 dead as the ship is overcome

More than 50 migrants were killed when a boat carrying about 150 people sank from Yemen’s coast in bad weather on Sunday.

The court gave up the southern province of Abian in Yemen, with only 10 people saving and dozens still disappearing, according to local authorities.

Many victims are thought to be Ethiopian citizens, said the International Migration Organization (IOM), which called the incident “heartbreaking”.

Yemen remains a major path for migrants from the African horn traveling to the Arabian Gulf countries in search of work, with Iom assessing that hundreds have died or disappeared in shipwrecks in recent months.

Yom Yemen Abdusator Esoev boss told the Associated Press that the bodies of 54 migrants were found on the shore in the southern Hanfar district and 14 others were taken to a hospital morgue in the capital of Abian Zinjibar.

Abin’s Security Directorate has made a statement about the great search and rescue mission and said that many dead bodies were found in a wide area of the coastline, according to the Associated Press.

A spokesman for MOM said the agency was “deeply saddened” by the “tragic loss of life” and emphasized the need for more precautions for migrants.

“This heartbreaking incident emphasizes the urgent need for enhanced mechanisms to protect migrants taking dangerous trips, often facilitated by unscrupulous smugglers who exploit despair and vulnerability,” they said.

Early Iom describes the trip from the African horn to Yemen as “one of the most busy and dangerous mixed migration routes.”

In March, two boats, carrying more than 180 migrants, sank from the shore of Yemen in the area of Dhubab due to the rough seas, with only two crew members saved and all the other passengers disappeared and afraid of the dead.

Migrants who arrive in the reacting points of migrants in Yemen also report that people who-contraphan become more relentless, deliberately sending boats in dangerous conditions to avoid patrols, according to a IOM report.

Despite the risks, many migrants continue to make the trip, with over 60,000 arriving in Yemen alone in 2024 alone.

In the last decade, the MIOM migrant project has recorded more than 3,400 deaths and disappeared people along the route – 1400 of these deaths had to be drowned.