East Africa: Gun-Toting Smugglers Force Migrants Overboard Off Yemen, Drowning At Least 39 - UN

In yet another grim episode of asylum-seekers and migrants dying while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen, people-smugglers forced some 140 Ethiopians and Somalis at gunpoint to jump overboard, drowning at least 39 of them, the United Nations refugee agency has reported.

They were part of a group of 349 people on three different smugglers boats making the hazardous crossing over the weekend.

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