The Yemeni Ministry of Interior announced that the security services in Al-Khawkhah District of Hodeidah Governorate, west of the country, found 6 bodies dumped on the coast of the district belonging to migrants from the Horn of Africa whose boat sank at sea.

The Yemeni Interior Ministry, in a statement published by its security media on Thursday evening, quoted the Khokha police as saying that the six bodies that were thrown by the sea onto the coast were decomposed at the time they were found.

She explained that two bodies were found in the Al-Hayma Coast, two other bodies in the Al-Wa'ra Coast, while one body was found in the Abu Zahra Coast and another in the Al-Qattaya Coast.

She indicated that she had informed all the relevant authorities, who directed that the bodies be buried as they were decomposed, after taking the necessary procedures in such cases.

The coast of Yemen witnesses frequent drowning incidents involving African migrants trying to reach Yemen.