34 Migrants Drown As Boat Capsizes Off East Africa's Djibouti: Officials

"Apprehending and prosecuting people traffickers and smugglers who exploit the vulnerabilities of migrants must become a priority," an official tweeted.

Thirty-four migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday, the second such accident in just over a month. "The migrants were being transported by people smugglers... Apprehending and prosecuting people traffickers and smugglers who exploit the vulnerabilities of migrants must become a priority. Too many lives needlessly lost," Mohammed Abdiker, the IOM's regional director for East Africa and the Horn of Africa, wrote on Twitter. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)