Al Jazeera | 26.01.2018
At least 30 refugees and migrants have drowned off the coast of Aden, Yemen, after their boat capsized, the United Nations has reported.
The UN’s migration and refugee agencies said on Friday that the boat, overcrowded with at least 152 Somalis and Ethiopians, had departed from the Al Buraiqa coast in Aden on January 23.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR said the vessel was believed to have been operated by „unscrupulous smugglers“ who were trying to bring refugees and migrants to Djibouti „while trying to extort more money from them“.