Sana’a – A total of 27 African illegal immigrants were killed Friday in a boating accident near the Yemeni coast, wintesses and police sources said. A boat carrying 120 illegal immigrants near the coast in Mayfa’h area in Hadramout province, 900 kilometres south-east of the capital Sana’a, capsized, the sources added.

The illegal immigrants, mostly Somali and Ethiopian, were heading from Somalia to Yemen.

Forty-five passengers survived while about 48 others were still missing.

No further details about the cause of the accident were immediately available.

Source: DPA