At least 49 dead and 140 missing migrant boat sinks near Yemen, UN agency says [Video]

• A boat transporting some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 200-mile journey to Yemen sank in the Gulf of Aden, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing.
• Search efforts continue and 71 people have been rescued so far. 
• The sinking follows two April shipwrecks off the coast of Djibouti that killed at least 62 people as they tried to reach Yemen.

A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.

The boat was carrying some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 200-mile journey across the Gulf of Aden when it sank Monday off Yemen’s southern coast, the IOM said in a statement.

It said search efforts were continuing and so far 71 had been rescued. Among the dead were 31 women and six children, it said.

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