At least 31 Somali refugees have been killed off the coast of Yemen after a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, according to a local coastguard officer in the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah area.
Mohamed al-Alay told Reuters news agency that the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents, were on their way from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked late on Thursday by an Apache helicopter near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
A sailor who had been operating the boat, Ibrahim Ali Zeyad, said 80 refugees were rescued after the incident.
It was not
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/somali-refugees-killed-near-bab-al-mandeb-strait/
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