At least 45 people have drowned after a boat carrying them from Somalia across the Gulf of Aden capsized in deep waters off Yemen. The boat, transporting 46 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, capsized on Friday night about 95km from Mukalla, a south-eastern Yemeni port, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
It is the second accident involving migrants off Yemen in about a week: On February 20, six African migrants drowned and 11 were reported missing and presumed dead after traffickers pushed dozens of passengers overboard in deep waters off Yemen's south-eastern coast.Smugglers forced the 52 passengers, 40 Somalis and 12 Ethiopians, into the sea after they spotted Yemeni coast guards onshore.
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