Up to 50 refugees ‘deliberately drowned’ off Yemen
Up to 50 refugees and migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were ‘deliberately drowned’ when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen’s coast, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, calling the drownings ‘shocking and inhumane’.
11 Aug 2017
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