CAIRO—At least 14 women and children died in a shipwreck off Yemen’s Red Sea coast earlier this week, authorities said Wednesday.
The boat, with over two dozen of people on board, capsized off the Province of Hodeida, according to a statement by the Fisheries Authority in Hodeida, run by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The tragedy happened late on Monday, the statement said. Eleven women and three children drowned while 11 people, including a child, survived. The group was heading to a relative’s wedding party on Kamaran Island when their boat capsized because of high winds and waves.
Authorities dispatched coast guard vessels to search for the bodies in a channel between Kamaran and the Province’s district of Luhiya, the statement added….