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At least 139 dead after migrant boat carrying over 300 people capsizes off Djibouti

“What is terrible is that they were buried with no names, in a common grave, like in a war situation,” Coissac said. “They all have a mother, a father, and we may never learn what happened”

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Members of IOM Djibouti assisting survivors after a boat sank off the coast of Djibouti. Pic/AFP

Members of IOM Djibouti assisting survivors after a boat sank off the coast of Djibouti. Pic/AFP

At least 139 people, including children, have died after a boat carrying more than 300 migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti in east Africa, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.

That number only includes those buried by authorities in Djibouti. Others have been buried by the migrants themselves but they won’t be added to the official count until authorities can verify the bodies, Alexandre Coissac, IOM Chief of Mission in Djibouti, told the AP via the phone.

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