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YEMEN

Attack on migrant boat claims 31 lives

Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late on Thursday in an airstrike launched by suspected Saudi-led helicopters, a local coast guard in the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah area said. Coast guard Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents, were on their way from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab al-Mandeb strait. A sailor who had been operating the boat, Ibrahim Ali Zeyad, said 80 refugees had been rescued after the incident.