31 Somali refugees killed in a raid off Yemen’s coast
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Read < 1minuteYemeni fishermen carry the body of a Somali refugee, killed in attack by a helicopter while travelling in a vessel off Yemen, are pictured at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad
Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late on Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were traveling in, a local coast guard in the Houthi-controled Hodeidah area said, Reuters reports.
Reports say the refugees, were on their way from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
The refugees are said to have been carrying official UNHCR documents.
80 refugees were rescued after the incident, this according to a sailor who had been operating the boat.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack.
