YEMEN Press Agency

1000 illegal immigrants deported from Saada

SAADA, Dec. 16 (YPA) – Saada province’s police deported on Thursday 1000 illegal immigrants, all of whom were of African nationalities.

A security source at the province police stated that the illegal immigrants were transported from the shelter center in the province to the Immigration and Passports Department in the capital, Sanaa, to be later returned to their countries.

 It is noteworthy that dozens of African migrants were killed during the last period by the Saudi army fire because hundreds of them tried to enter Saudi territory through the Yemeni border.

E.M