SANA'A, Jan.12 (Saba)- Yemeni authorities have arrested 15 illegal Ethiopian immigrants, seven of them were arrested at the Yemeni-Omani border and eight other, including three women were arrested at Taiz's coast while trying to enter the country illegally.

According to the information center of Interior Ministry, security forces detained the illegal immigrants for extraditing them to their country.

Meanwhile, security sources said that about 47 Somali refugees, including nine women had arrived at the coasts of Hadramout and Taiz provinces.

Thirty nine Somali refugees were handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in order to refer them to the refugees camp at Mayfa district in Shabwa governorate while eight Somali refugees, including five women have been transported to the Kharaz camp of refugees in Lahj governorate.

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