Thirteen individuals have perished and 14 more are unaccounted for following a boat accident near Yemen on Tuesday, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday.
The boat, which was transporting 25 Ethiopians and two Yemenis, was navigating near the coast of Yemen's Taiz governorate in the southwest, as stated by IOM. The bodies of the victims, comprising 11 men and two women, were retrieved along the shores of the Bab Al Mandab Strait, a critical maritime route for worldwide commodity transport. Ongoing search efforts aim to find those still missing, including the Yemeni captain and his assistant, though the cause of the boat's sinking remains unclear, the report noted. In July, another boat carrying at least 45 refugees capsized off the coast of Yemen's Taiz, with only four survivors.
IOM, which maintains a record of migrant fatalities and disappearances on migration routes, has documented 2,082 such incidents along the route from East Africa and the Horn of Africa to Gulf countries since 2014.
