A boat carrying over 200 migrants capsized off the Yemen coast, leaving at least 39 dead and several missing, a UN agency said on Tuesday (June 11). "Tragic incident off #Yemen coast: Boat with 260 migrants sank yesterday.

39 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Yemen coast

A small boat carrying 16 migrants heading from northern France to Britain capsized, killing a seven-year-old girl who drowned Sunday (Mar 3), the prefecture in France's Nord department said.

Channel crossing: Seven-year-old girl dies as boat carrying 16 migrants capsizes

In another migrant shipwreck incident, around 40 people are missing after their boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN said on Friday. The United Nations agency released a statement saying that the survivors, who were from sub-Saharan Africa, arrived in Lampedusa on Thursday after they were rescued from the shipwreck by another vessel.

Around 40 migrants missing after boat capsizes between Italy and Tunisia

Around 36 migrants are feared dead after a rubber dinghy carrying more than 60 people sank off the coast of Morocco on Wednesday. Caminando Fronteras, a Spanish NGO, said that only 24 people have been rescued by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service while the remaining were still missing.

Over 30 migrants feared dead as dinghy carrying 60 people sinks off Morocco coast

A coast guard official and an aid worker have reported that at least 57 bodies have washed ashore after two boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off various cities in western Libya. On one of the boats that departed for Europe at around 2am local time (00:00 GMT) on Tuesday, a survivor estimated that there were about 80 people.

57 bodies wash ashore after boats sink off Libya coast