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Up To 50 Migrants Killed Off Coast Of Yemen After Smuggler Forces Them Overboard The average age of migrants on board was 16. As many as 50  Somali and Ethiopian migrants  and refugees drowned off Yemen’s coast after a smuggler threw more than 120 of them overboard from their boat into torrential waters, the United Nations said Wednesday. The tragedy occurred early Wednesday morning local time and was discovered by staff from the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration later that day when they were patrolling a beach in Shabwa, a Yemeni governorate along the Arabian Sea. The staff aided 27 migrants on shore and found 29 shallow graves dug by survivors. With many still unaccounted for, the IOM believes up to 50 may have died.  “The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the coast,” Laurent de Boeck, the IOM Yemen chief of mission, said in a  statement  from the U.N. Many of