UAE brings 1,500 militants from Dhalea to Socotra Archipelago

SANAA, Sep. 26 (YPA) – A ship carrying hundreds of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militants arrived at Socotra Island Archipelago, southeast Yemen, local sources reported.

The sources said that 1,500 militia members of the STC, most of them from Dhalea province and Yafea area, were brought in from Aden into the Socotra archipelago.

An activist from Socotra, Nazem Mahrous, posted on his Facebook wall, saying: “At these moments, 1,500 militia members from Dhalea are being disembarked in ‘Qudama’ area on the island of Socotra, after they were brought on board a ship coming from Aden.”

YPA