{"id":10176,"date":"2025-06-12T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:04:01","slug":"eight-killed-in-migrant-boat-attack-off-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10176","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in migrant boat attack off Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least eight people died and 22 were missing after smugglers attacked a migrant boat and forced them to disembark, the UN&#8217;s migration agency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The boat was carrying around 150 passengers when it was stopped by smugglers last Thursday, forcing them to disembark &#8220;far from the coast&#8221;. &#8220;The passengers were left to swim for their lives in open water,&#8221; the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear why the smugglers forced the group to disembark. Each year, thousands of African migrants brave the &#8220;Eastern Route&#8221; across the Red Sea from Djibouti to Yemen in the hope of eventually reaching oil-rich Gulf countries.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the IOM recorded at least 558 deaths on the route, with 462 resulting from shipwrecks.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people died and 22 were missing after smugglers attacked a migrant boat and forced them to disembark, the UN&#8217;s migration agency said on Wednesday. The boat was carrying around 150 passengers when it was stopped by smugglers last Thursday, forcing them to disembark &#8220;far from the coast&#8221;. &#8220;The passengers were left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}