Two boats seized after they disembark 71 African refugees

TAIZ, April 10 (Saba) - Security forces at the Thubab coastline,
Taiz, have seized a smuggling boat carrying 46 Somali refugees
including 6 women.

The boat owners, three Yemeni sailors aged 30-35, have been turned
over to Prosecution.

In a similar event, Coastguards in the Gulf of Aden said a smuggling
boat called al-Rayan owned by a Yemeni citizen disembarked 25 Somali
refugees including 7 women at the al-Kuma coast.

Seeing a naval patrol, the boat run away to the Ras al-Amra area in
the Arabian Sea but it was later held with its crew.

Somali refugees continue to arrive in Yemen with police saying that
almost 170 African displaced people including 33 women who reached
the country coastlines in Taiz and Hahj provinces on Thursday. They
were gathered and sent to the main refuge of Kharaz in Lahj.

Last figures suggest the number of those refugees who have already
reached Yemeni territories exceeding 700.000.

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