The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that 280 refugees have suffered two tragic incidents, 226 survived, 41 found dead, 12 still missing off Shabwa province coast, southeastern Yemen.

IOM posted on twitter that Smugglers forced, in two consecutive days, 280 refugees from the Horn of Africa to jump into the sea from two boats going to the Gulf states through Yemen.

On 9 August, 85 refugees out of 120 forced to be jumped into the sea were survived, 29 others drowned, and 6 still missing ''24 Ethiopians and 5 Somalis'', and on 10 August, 141 out of 160 were survived, 12 found dead, and 7 missing '' all of them Ethiopians''.

In the second incident, the number of deaths reduced because only the smugglers forced the refugees to jump near the coast, According to the organization.