Yemeni security officials said 76 bodies had been recovered and 32 people rescued from a shipwreck in the Gulf of Aden. The UN’s migration agency said 157 people were on board.
The accident occurred off Abyan governorate in southern Yemen, a frequent destination for boats smuggling African migrants hoping to reach the wealthy Gulf states.
Some of those rescued have been transferred to Aden, near Abyan, a security official said.
UN agency the International Organization for Migration earlier gave a toll of at least 68 dead. The vessel that sank off Abyan was carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants, according to the province’s security directorate and an IOM source.
The IOM recorded at least 558 deaths on the Red Sea route last year, with 462 from boat accidents.
