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Eight migrants dead, 12 missing, ejected from a boat by smugglers near Djibouti

10/4/2020, 8:32:54 PM


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. To read also: “Vu d'Ailleurs” N ° 22 - The impossible European consensus on migrants " According to surviving witnesses, whom IOM rescued, three smugglers vio

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.

To read also: “Vu d'Ailleurs” N ° 22 - The impossible European consensus on migrants

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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,

" said spokesperson Yvonne Ndege.