UNDER PRESSURE, THE SMUGGLERS DO NOT HESITATE TO THROW MIGRANTS INTO THE SEA
August 16, 2017
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Photo Anna Surinyach. AP
Wednesday and Thursday, smugglers, fearing to be intercepted by the authorities, threw 300 Somalis and Eritreans into the sea off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden. 3,501 people have already lost their lives in 2017 by fleeing their country according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Source: Liberation