30 SOMALIS KILLED AT SEA
Military helicopter opens fire on migrants’ boat, 48km off Yemeni coast
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