Somalia: Boat with 126 Migrants Survives Found

Bosasso, (RBC Radio) More than 100 migrants have been rescued by fishermen from the Gulf of Aden after human traffickers reportedly forced them into the sea in the northern east of Somalia.

The migrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, were 135 persons those have been reported they had set off from the coast of Bosasso port city in northern Somalia a week ago.

Puntland’s port city of Bosasso had been the biggest hub of the human traffickers since 1990.

“The boat had developed engine trouble and drifted for 3 days before the smugglers forced us to put into the sea”, said Ahmed Ali Suldan, one of the survivors who had reached the cost of Lasqoray district of Sanag region, nearly 200 km from the west of Bosasso town.

Nearly 126 survivors have no reached on the shore of Laasa Surad of Lasqoray district where they eventually met group local residents.

Yusuf Jama’ district commissioner told RBC Radio that six people are still missing while other found dead.

Hundred illegal migrants cross to Yemen each year passing on small unsafe boats. Mostly the migrants strat their journey from the Bosasso port town of Puntland.

Many of the migrants are forced to get off the boats during their journey to Yemen causing tens of them to die in the water.

RBC Radio