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Scores of African migrants are feared to have died on Wednesday after smugglers dumped them overboard off Djibouti as they headed for Yemen, hoping to enter Saudi Arabia to find work. His boat, carrying 200 migrants, left Oulebi in Djibouti at 2 am, according to Yvonne Ndege, a spokesperson for the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM).
But survivors said that half an hour later, smugglers judged the boat to be overloaded and dumped at least 80 passengers, Ndege said. He said that five bodies had been recovered so far.
Drownings in Eritrean waters, typically involving migrants from Ethiopia or Somalia trying to escape poverty and war at home and find work in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, have become common. They include potential migrants who have been stranded in Yemen after failing to cross into Saudi Arabia, sometimes due to coronavirus restrictions, and drowning at the return crossing.
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