Overview

• The vessel carried 154 Ethiopian migrants and capsized off Abyan province early Sunday, leaving only 12 survivors.
• UN migration agency officials confirmed 68 deaths and 74 people unaccounted for after the incident.
• Rescuers recovered 54 bodies in Khanfar district and 14 more were taken to the morgue in Zinjibar.
• Yemen’s decade-long civil war has disrupted land corridors, pushing migrants into overcrowded, trafficker-operated vessels across the Red Sea.
• The IOM tracks ongoing departures and coordinates search and recovery operations after hundreds perished or vanished in similar shipwrecks in recent months.