more than 50 dead as vessel capsizes

More than 50 immigrants died when a boat carrying about 150 people from the coast of Yemen drowned in bad weather on Sunday.

The ship turned off the southern province of Abyan in Yemen, where only 10 people were rescued and dozens are still missing, according to the local authorities.

The International Immigration Organization (IOM), which described the accident, said the accident was “tragic.”

Yemen is still a major road for immigrants from the Horn of Africa, which is traveling to the Arab Gulf states in search of work, where the International Organization for Migration has been estimated, lost hundreds, or lost in shipwrecks in recent months.

“The bodies of 54 migrants were discovered on the beach in the southern region of Khanfar, and 14 others were transferred to the hospital morgue in the capital of the Abyan Province of Zinbar.

The Security Directorate issued a statement on the largest search and rescue task, and said that many bodies have been found across a wide area of the coastal line, according to Associated Press.

A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration said that the agency was “very sad” through “the tragic loss in life” and stressed the need for more guarantees for immigrants.

They said: “This sudden incident confirms the urgent need for promoting protection mechanisms for migrants who are risky trips, and often facilitated them with inexpensive smugglers who take advantage of despair and weakness.”

The International Organization for Migration has previously described the journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen as “one of the busiest and most dangerous mixed immigration methods.”

In March, two readers carrying more than 180 migrants drowned off the coast of the Dabab area in Yemen due to the harsh seas, where only two crew crew were rescued and all missing passengers remain and fear dead.

Immigrants who reach immigrants’ response points in Yemen also reported that people who are on top of the boats intentionally sent to dangerous conditions to avoid patrols, according to the IOM report.

Despite the risks, many migrants continue to take the trip, reaching more than 60,000 Yemen in 2024 alone.

In the past decade, the project of missing migrants in the International Organization for Migration recorded more than 3,400 deaths and loss of people along the road – 1,400 of those deaths were due to drowning.