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Previous night rescue of a boat with forty-five migrants in Djibouti. [AFP]
Twenty Ethiopian migrants were killed when their boat from Djibouti capsised off Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.
The shipwreck on Saturday "claimed the lives of 20 Ethiopian migrants, including nine women and 11 men. The vessel, carrying 35 Ethiopian migrants along with a Yemeni captain and his assistant, departed from Djibouti," the UN migration body said in a statement.
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