CNN(CNN) - A smuggler "deliberately drowned" up to 50 Somali and Ethiopian migrants in the sea off Yemen's coast, the United Nations migration agency said. The teenage migrants were trying to reach the Gulf countries via Yemen on Wednesday. Shortly after the drowning, IOM staff found shallow graves of 29 migrants on a beach in Shabwa, the UN agency said. The IOM estimates that since January, 55,000 migrants have left the Horn of Africa to come to Yemen. Shallow gravesThe trip across the waters from Somalia to Yemen is fraught with peril, with Yemen engulfed in war.

Source: Ethiopian News August 10, 2017 00:45 UTC