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More African Migrants Drown Off Yemen: 88 Feared Perish
18 June 2009
Sana'a, Yemen - At least 18 people drowned and 29 were missing after a smugglers' boat carrying 88 African would-be migrants capsized off Yemen, the UN refugee agency reported on Thursday. The boat overturned after taking on water while still far from shore amid strong winds and rough seas, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement. It said the accident took place late on Monday off the Yemeni town of Bourom, some 500 kilometres east of the southern port city of Aden. Eighteen bodies were recovered by a local humanitarian organisation, and were buried in a cemetery in the al-Hamra village, it said.
"More bodies are expected to be washed ashore," the UNHCR said. Many African migrants, mostly from conflict-torn Somalia, try to reach Yemen, which is seen as a gateway to Europe and the oil-rich countries of the Arabian peninsula. Hundreds of people perish every year in the perilous exodus that takes thousands of desperate Somalis and Ethiopians to Yemen in small boats run by people-traffickers operating from Somali ports. More than 522 boats and 25,764 people have arrived in Yemen after making the hazardous voyage across the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa since the beginning of this year, according to the UNHCR. Some 146 people have reportedly drowned and 85 are missing at sea during that period. More than 50 000 migrants, the vast majority of them Somalis, relied on traffickers for the treacherous sea crossing between Somalia and Yemen in 2008. At least 590 people drowned and another 359 were reported missing in 2008 as result of crossings gone wrong. - Sapa-dpa
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