Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar arrived back in Somalia on Saturday and were received by government officials.

The survivors aged 17 to 50 wore outfits made of fabric with the Somali national flag colours as they disembarked from a plane in the capital, Mogadishu, visibly relieved to return to safety.

FILE - A boat arrives at Dzaoudzi on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, March 31, 2012. The Somali government said, Nov. 25, 2024, it will begin evacuating the survivors of two boats, carrying ...

Somali nationals who survived a boat capsizing off the coast of Madagascar were reunited with family members at their arrival at Mogadishu airport, after being repatriated by the government.

Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar have arrived back in Somalia and were received by government officials.

(AP Photo/Bebel Betombo) Survivors of a boat tragedy that killed dozens of Somali migrants off the coast of Madagascar arrive at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday ...

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off ...

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar have arrived back in Somalia and ...

Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar arrived back in Somalia on Saturday and were received by government officials. The ...