“The smugglers dropped them into the sea instead of bringing them to the shore.”Up to 180 migrants were forced from the boat in the latest incident Thursday morning, the IOM said. ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA—Five migrants are dead and more than 50 are missing after smugglers forced them from a boat off the coast of Yemen in the second such drowning in two days, the UN migration agency said Thursday. The narrow waters between the Horn of Africa and Yemen have been a popular migration route despite Yemen’s ongoing conflict. And they have no choice,” de Boeck told the AP. In March, Somalia’s government blamed the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen for an attack on a boat that killed at least 42 Somali refugees off Yemen’s coast.

Source: thestar August 10, 2017 12:08 UTC