Up to 29 people could be missing after a ferry sank off Yemen.

At least 35 passengers were rescued, fisheries minister Fahad Kaffen said.

The ship was en route from Hadramout to the island of Socotra.

The Aden al-Ghad news website said the ferry is thought to have suffered some kind of accident.

Authorities at Hadramout's Mukalla port lost contact with it on Tuesday evening.

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