Overview

• The vessel, carrying 154 Ethiopian migrants, overturned in strong winds off Yemen’s Abyan province on Saturday night.
• Authorities have recovered 68 bodies in coastal areas of Khanfar and Zinjibar and transferred remains to local morgues.
• Twelve survivors were pulled from the water and rushed to Shaqra Hospital, with some patients reported to be in critical condition.
• Search, rescue, medical operations are under way along the Arabian Sea shoreline; around 74 migrants remain missing.
• The International Organization for Migration is coordinating searches, burials, medical aid, survivor support under harsh humanitarian conditions.