At least five migrants drowned and 50 went missing Thursday (August 10th) when smugglers forced 180 African migrants off a boat bound for Yemen, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
A similar incident on Wednesday left 50 dead, AFP reported.
The IOM said 25 people were being treated for injuries on a beach on Yemen's Red Sea coast, but could not immediately confirm their nationalities.
On Wednesday (August 9th), human traffickers also forced more than 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into rough seas off Yemen to avoid arrest by local authorities, leaving at least 50 dead and 22 missing, the IOM said.
IOM teams, working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), found the bodies of 29 migrants in shallow graves along the coast of Shabwa province in southern Yemen. They had been buried by survivors.
The average age of those on the boat was 16.
