Officials: 14 women, children drowned in shipwreck off Yemen

CAIRO (AP) — At least 14 women and children died in a shipwreck off Yemen's Red Sea coast earlier this week, authorities said Wednesday. The boat, with over two dozen of people on board, capsized off the province of Hodeida, according to a statement by the Fisheries Authority in Hodeida, run by the country's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

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