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Coast Guards Director: Victims of Safez ship 100 killed, injured since August

[21/11/2018 07:37]

ALKHOKHAH-SABA
Director of Coast Guards in the city of Al-Khokhah Fatehi Al-Moa'lim said that victims of the Iranian Safez amounted to 40 people killed and 60 wounded in the west coast since last August.

His statement came during a protest organized Wednesday by the Fishermen Associations in the district of Al-Khokhah of Hodeidah province.

The fishermen appealed to protect them and put an end of the ship's threats.

In a statement the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) obtained a copy of, the fishermen in Al-Khokhah also called on the legitimate government and International Community (IC) to move to remove the Iranian ship from the Yemeni territorial waters.

Advisor of Fishery Ministry Ali Rajeh stated that the Ministry is very interested in fishery sector and business. So the Ministry is keen to address the fishermen concerns in the west coast , particularly the threats poses by the Iranian ship to the fishermen life.

Rajeh noted that the Ministry is working on a detailed report about the Iranian ship problem in order to be submitted to the government headed by Prime Minister Dr Ma'een Abdulmalik in order to find out solution to the problem.
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