Four fishermen go missing off Aden coasts

Last updated Jun 1, 2025 11:42 PM

A Yemeni fisherman sits at the beach in Aden as the Seera Castle appears on top of the opposite hill on April 6, 2008. Yemeni authorities arrested tens of activists in the south of the country this week as they traded charges with the southern-based Yemen Socialist Party (YSP) over protests that led to deadly clashes with security forces in the provinces of Lahj, al-Daleh and Aden. The troubles began after southerners protested at the army's refusal to admit a number of people among them who responded to a recruitment campaign. AFP PHOTO/KHALED FAZAA (Photo credit should read KHALED FAZAA/AFP via Getty Images)

SANAA, June 02 (YPA) – About four fishermen from the Seera district of Aden province, south of Yemen, went missing after going out fishing at sea on Saturday.

Seera Fishermen’s Association in Aden confirmed in a statement that their boat was found empty in an area 27 nautical miles off Aden coast.

The association stated, in an official circulated by local media, that the four fishermen set out at dawn on Saturday on a Galaxy boat equipped with two 15-40 horsepower marine engines, and had not returned since then.

The statement indicated that the association had dispatched 10 boats and their sailors to search for the missing fishermen and their boat.

It called on the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of the coalition-backed Aden to contact the relevant authorities to search for the missing fishermen along the coastline, extending all the way to Hadramout.