14 ladies, youngsters drowned in shipwreck off Yemen

CAIRO (AP) — Not less than 14 ladies and kids died in a shipwreck off Yemen’s Purple Coastline earlier this week, authorities stated Wednesday.

The boat, with over two dozen of individuals on board, capsized off the province of Hodeida, in accordance with a press release by the Fisheries Authority in Hodeida, run by the nation’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

The tragedy occurred late on Monday, the assertion stated. Eleven ladies and three youngsters drowned whereas 11 individuals, together with a toddler, survived. The group was heading to a relative’s marriage ceremony occasion on Kamaran Island when their boat capsized due to excessive winds and waves.

Authorities dispatched coast guard vessels to seek for the our bodies in a channel between Kamaran and the province’s district of Luhiya, the assertion added.

It was the newest maritime tragedy off Yemen’s shores. Most earlier shipwrecks within the area concerned African migrants fleeing wars and poverty of their residence international locations. The migrants danger perilous voyages from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia to Yemen and on to richer Gulf Arab international locations in the hunt for work.

Yemen descended into civil battle in 2014, when the insurgent Houthis descended from their northern stronghold and seized the capital, Sanaa, together with a lot of the nation’s north. The Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to try to restore the internationally acknowledged authorities to energy.

The battle has spawned one of many world’s worst humanitarian crises and pushed impoverished Yemen to the brink of famine.