Fresh 69 Somali refugees reach Yemen

HADRAMOUT, March 17 (Saba) -About 69 Somali
refugees have arrived at Yemeni coasts on smuggling boats, the Interior Ministry has
reported.
About 39 refugees including 9 women reached Broom coast in the eastern province of
Hadramout.
They were gathered and handed to the UNHCR in order to send them to a temporary
refugee camp in Maifa'a, Shabwa.
Thubab coast of Tiaz province has received about 30 refugees including 13 women who
were sent the Kharaz camp in Lahj.
In the north, police in the capital Sana'a have arrested 7 foreigners including
Indians, after they entered the country illegally.
The authorities say the number of people from the Horn of Africa who have already
arrived in the country until last year is more 700000 people, mainly coming from
Somalia.
Yemen has ordered security authorities in all coastal cities to close all waterways
to prevent possible infiltration of terrorists from Africa after Somalia's
al-Shabaab
Movement said it would send fighters to support al-Qaeda in the country.
MD/FR