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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The U.N migration bureau said Wednesday that 8 migrants died and 22 others were missing aft they were forced disconnected a vessel adjacent the Djiboutian coast.
The International Organization for Migration, oregon IOM, successful a connection said the migrants were portion of a radical of 150 others who were forced by smugglers to disembark a vessel and aquatics to enactment connected June 5.
The migrants were recovered successful the godforsaken by IOM patrol teams and taken to a migrant effect center.
The IOM and authorities successful Djibouti are continuing with a hunt and rescue cognition to find the missing migrants.
“Every beingness mislaid astatine oversea is simply a calamity that should ne'er happen,” Celestine Frantz, said IOM Regional Director for the East, Horn and Southern Africa.
Frantz said that the migrants were “forced into intolerable choices by smugglers who amusement nary respect for quality life.”
Thousands of migrants from African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries seeking a amended beingness successful Europe attempt irregular migration each year. Smugglers battalion vessels afloat of hopeless radical consenting to hazard their lives to scope continental Europe.
Most of the vessels get migrants crossed the Red Sea to Gulf countries earlier they proceed further to European nations.
Yemen is simply a major way for migrants from East Africa and the Horn of Africa trying to scope Gulf countries for work, with hundreds of thousands attempting the way each year.
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