Dozens of fleeing Somalis drown
From Times Wire Reports
About 40 people, mostly Somalis, drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden as they fled to Yemen to escape battles at home, security officials and witnesses said.
About 90 others survived and managed to reach the southern Yemeni shores of Shokara after their rickety vessels capsized, a security official said.
A fisherman said he saw “mutilated bodies scattered along the shores.” It was not immediately clear how many boats were in the gulf, how they capsized or whether people were missing.
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