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The UN's refugee agency reports that 62 people have died off Yemen's coast, in what it describes as the worst sinking incident in the region this year.

Sixty migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia and two Yemeni crew members drowned in the accident last weekend, the UNHCR said on Friday.

Every year thousands of Africans make the journey to Yemen in crowded boats.

Yemen is seen as a gateway to the Middle East or Europe but hundreds have died on the journey.

"The victims were reportedly buried by local residents after their bodies washed ashore near the Bab El Mandeb area off Yemen's coast," the UNHCR said in a statement.

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