Aden, Aug. 4 -- The death toll from a migrant boat capsizing off Yemen's coast has risen to 68, with 74 others still missing, local officials have been cited as per several media reports.

Xinhua news agency stated that the search and rescue operations continued amid rough seas, local officials said on Sunday.

The boat with dozens of migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, sank off the coast of Abyan province in southern Yemen at dawn due to bad weather conditions, a security source told the Anadolu news agency.

Rescue teams have recovered 68 bodies throughout the day along the coastline of southern Abyan province, while 12 survivors were pulled from the water earlier in the morning, according to Abdul Qader Bajamil, director of the health offi...