East Africa: More Than 300 Somalis, Ethiopians Are Smuggled Into Yemen - UN Refugee Agency

16 May 2006

More than 300 Somalis and Ethiopians were smuggled into Yemen last weekend with tales of a harrowing trip during which the smugglers beat three passengers to death and threw their corpses overboard, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said today.

Of the 335 who reportedly arrived in Yemen, only 35 came to the agency's reception centre in May'faa in southern Yemen, but survivors of the dangerous Gulf of Aden trip often travel to other destinations, UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told journalists at the UN complex in Geneva.

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