Sixty six African migrants are dead or missing after being forced overboard by people traffickers off the coast of Yemen, the UN refugee agency says.
The incident involved two smugglers' boats that left the Somali coastal town of Bossaso on Saturday with 244 people aboard, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians.
Survivors say the victims drowned when they were forced into deep water after reaching the Yemen coast on Sunday.
More than 20,000 people have made the crossing from East Africa this year.
But more than 400 have died while crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen and with as many again missing and feared dead, the UNHCR says.
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