Eight migrants, Ethiopians, have died and 12 others are missing after smugglers ejected them from a boat off the coast of Djibouti, a spokesperson for the International Office for Migration (IOM) said in Nairobi. , a United Nations agency.
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According to surviving witnesses, whom IOM rescued, three smugglers violently pushed young men and women out of the boat which was then at sea,
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