Almost 60 People Missing after Ship Sinks in Yemen
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Nearly 60 people are missing after a ship sank off Yemen's Socotra island, its fisheries minister said Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued.
The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen's southeastern port city of Mukalla towards Socotra with some 60 people on board, among them women and children, Fahd Kavieen said.
Socotra lies in the Indian Ocean closer to the coast of Somalia than the Yemeni mainland.
Yemen’s sabanew.net reported that two ships, one Austrian, one Australian, had rescued two of those on board, according to AFP.
Sabanews did not specify whether the vessels were merchant ships or part of an international flotilla that has been fighting piracy off the Somali coast.
