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30 SOMALIS KILLED AT SEA

Military helicopter opens fire on migrants’ boat, 48km off Yemeni coast

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SANAA room for them, so we had to put them in the fish fridges,” he said.

The boat was attacked by a Saudi-led military coalition, Yemeni officials said.

The attack, about 48km off the Yemeni coast, turned a desperate journey by migrants already fleeing a war zone into a scene of horror, with dead and dismembere­d bodies piled atop one another.

Some survivors said a battleship struck them first, then a helicopter.

“People were falling left and right. Everyone kept screaming, ‘We are Somali! We are Somali!’ “They just kept shooting,” said a survivor, Ibrahim Ali Zeyad. NYT

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