GENEVA, March 26 (Reuters) - At least 29 people were killed and 71 reported missing after knife-wielding smugglers forced some 450 Somalis and Ethiopians into stormy seas off the coast of Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday.

The incident, the latest in a series involving boats carrying people across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, occurred last Thursday along a remote stretch of Yemen coastline.

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