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The International Organization for Migration says group of 150 were forced off boat by smugglers and made to swim to shore.
Eight refugees and migrants have died and 22 others are missing after they were forced off a boat near the Djibouti coast, according to the United Nations agency the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In a statement, IOM said the dead and missing were part of a group of 150 others who were forced by smugglers to get off a boat and swim to shore last week on June 5.
The surviving refugees and migrants were reportedly found in the desert by IOM patrol teams…
