At least 139 migrants dead, dozens missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti
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UN agency says vessel carrying 305 mostly Ethiopian passengers sank on a dangerous Red Sea route to Yemen
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Agence France-Presse Published: 9:05am, 12 Oct 2026
At least 139 migrants died, including 15 children, and 84 went missing when an overcrowded boat sank while heading from Djibouti to Yemen, a UN agency said on Sunday.
The vessel was carrying 305 people, most of them Ethiopian, when it capsized north of the Djibouti town of Obock on the night of October 8-9, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
“Survivors told me that the boat started to sink backwards as soon as they got in it,” Alexandre Coissac, IOM chief of mission in Djibouti, said.
“This is a devastating loss of life,” he said earlier in the statement.
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