Boat carrying migrants capsizes off Yemeni coast; at least 54 dead, dozens missing
Aden: At least 54 migrants are reported to have died as a boat sank off the coast of Yemen due to bad weather on Sunday, with health officials stating that dozen others who were in the boat are missing.
According to a report by Reuters, security sources have said that the boat carrying around 150 people capsized in the Arabian Sea off the Ahwar coast in the southern Abyan province of Yemen.
A provincial health officer Abdul Qadir Bajameel has said that 10 people in the boat, including nine Ethiopians and one Yemeni, were rescued, but dozens of people are still missing. Two medics have said that rescuers were looking for survivors.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that Yemen has been experiencing a significant increase in the number of irregular migrants from Africa. Migrants hoping to reach Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries in search of jobs are known to cross the Bab al-Mandab strait separating Djibouti and Eritrea to enter Yemen each year.
The IOM has called the route from the Horn of Africa to Yemen as one of the busiest and most dangerous mixed migration routes in the world. It added that, in 2024, more than 60,000 migrants were recorded to have arrived in Yemen.
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Double-decker electric bus gutted in fire at Kurla BEST depot
Mumbai (PTI): An empty double-decker electric bus was gutted in a fire during servicing at a BEST depot in Mumbai's Kurla area on Sunday, officials said, adding that nobody was injured.
The blaze broke out inside the Kurla BEST bus depot near Kanakia Building at 4.14 pm, according to preliminary information from the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
The parked bus was unoccupied at the time of the incident.
Fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control. The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, they said.
No injuries were reported in the incident, officials added.
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking has hired 50 electric double-decker buses from Switch Mobility in its fleet of around 2,700 buses.
