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The International Organization for Migration says smugglers dumped 80 overboard during the journey from Djibouti to Yemen.
The International Organization for Migration has said that at least 20 migrants and refugees died after smugglers threw 80 people overboard during a trip from Djibouti in East Africa to Yemen.
A statement said that “smugglers started yelling that there were too many on board” after the ship with 200 migrants, including children under 18, left on Wednesday.
IOM said five bodies have been recovered and the survivors are being treated in Djibouti. It’s not immediately clear which countries the migrants were from on this latest trip.
Drownings in Djibouti waters, typically involving migrants and refugees from Ethiopia or Somalia trying to escape poverty and war at home by looking for work in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates, have become common.
At least 20 migrants died off the coast of Obock, Djibouti, after 80 were thrown from a boat by human smugglers. The ship was heading to Yemen …
– Mohammed Abdiker (@AbdikerM) March 3, 2021
In October, at least eight migrants drowned after smugglers forced them off a boat near Djibouti.
In 2017, up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were “deliberately drowned” when a smuggler forced them into the sea off the coast of Yemen.
And in 2018, at least 30 migrants were killed when a ship sank off Yemen, with survivors reporting gunfire.
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