Refugees forced to abandon boat

Sanaa - Yemen's coast guard has recovered 15 bodies of Ethiopian and Somali refugees who were forced by the crew of a fishing…

Sanaa - Yemen's coast guard has recovered 15 bodies of Ethiopian and Somali refugees who were forced by the crew of a fishing boat to jump overboard in the Red Sea, and 36 are missing. Twenty-nine other people were rescued or swam ashore from.

Survivors said they set sail aboard a fishing boat from an Eritrean port, having paid to be smuggled into oil-rich Saudi Arabia. - (AFP)

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