Aden — Nearly 60 people are missing after a ship sank off Yemen’s Socotra island, its fisheries minister said on Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued. The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen’s southeastern port city of Mukalla towards Socotra with about 60 people on board, among them women and children, Fahd Kavieen said. The government’s sabanew.net reported that two ships — one Austrian and one Australian — had rescued two of those on board. It did not specify whether the vessels were merchant ships or part of an international flotilla that has been fighting piracy off the Somali coast.
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