”After having been alerted to it by local residents, a team of gendarmes near the reported site of the disaster and discovered two survivors as well as bodies of three women and two men,” wrote IOM in a statement.

the Disaster occurred about 30 minutes after that they overloaded the boats in difficult seas left Godoaria in the gulf of aden.

has said that an estimated 130 people on board were on his boat but that he did not know how many were in the other.

According to the IOM implements the Djibouti coast guard searches for survivors.

Many people are moving over the waters in the area – not least the travel of refugees from the war in Yemen back and forth across the sea.