“Search and rescue operations by local authorities and IOM are ongoing,” the agency told Platform X.
At least 16 migrants were killed and 28 others are missing in a shipwreck off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced today.
“Search and rescue operations by local authorities and IOM are ongoing,” the agency told Platform X, adding that a total of 77 migrants were on board the boat, “including at least one child.”
The IOM did not specify whether this child was among those rescued.
This is the second shipwreck reported by IOM off Djibouti in a few weeks, following a similar incident on April 8 in which at least 38 migrants, including children, died.
The “eastern route” followed by migrants coming from the Horn of Africa to reach Saudi Arabia through war-torn Yemen is considered by the IOM to be “one of the most dangerous and complex migration routes in Africa and the world”. .
Source :Skai
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