[News] Overcrowded boat carrying illegal migrants capsizes off Djibouti, 109 dead

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Country: Djibouti
Category: Casualties & SAR
Source: Baird Maritime · 12 Oct 2026

[News] At least 139 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Djibouti, UN says

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The UN's IOM agency says tens of thousands of migrants travel from the Horn of Africa through Djibouti each year as they look to cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Yemen and eventually reach the Gulf countries.

Sea area: Bab el-Mandeb · Region: Indian Ocean
Country: Djibouti, Yemen
Category: Casualties & SAR
Source: Euronews · 11 Oct 2026

[News] At least 139 migrants dead, dozens missing after boat capsizes off Djibouti

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At least 139 migrants died, including 15 children, and 84 went missing when an overcrowded boat sank while heading from Djibouti to Yemen, a UN agency said on Sunday. The vessel was carrying 305 people, most of them Ethiopian, when it capsized north of the Djibouti town of Obock on the night of October 8-9, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement. “Survivors told me that the boat started to sink backwards as soon as they got in it,” Alexandre Coissac, IOM chief of...

Country: Djibouti, Yemen
Category: Casualties & SAR
Source: SCMP World · 12 Oct 2026

[News] Djibouti: Rescuers Search for 116 Migrants Missing After Boat Wreck Off Djibouti

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[RFI] At least 109 migrants died, including 15 children, and some 116 went missing when a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti on the night of 8-9 October, a UN agency said Sunday. More than 80 people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals.

Country: Djibouti
Category: Casualties & SAR
Source: AllAfrica · 12 Oct 2026

[News] Djibouti: Djibouti Shipwreck Kills 109 Migrants, 116 Missing

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[Horn Diplomat] Djibouti, Oct 11 -- At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 remain missing after a boat carrying 305 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti while heading to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday.

Country: Djibouti, Yemen
Category: Casualties & SAR
Source: AllAfrica · 12 Oct 2026