At least 139 migrants including 15 children are dead after a boat capsized off Djibouti.
More than 80 people remain missing following the incident near Guhere, north of the fishing town of Obock, Djibouti, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, citing survivor accounts.
The overcrowded boat was carrying about 305 people and capsized while sailing from Djibouti to Yemen during the night of October 8-9.
Around 82 people survived the shipwreck, all of whom are Ethiopian nationals.
Among the bodies recovered after the boat capsized, 52 are men, 42 are women and 15 are children, including nine girls and six boys, the UN agency
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