SANA'A, Oct. 22 (Saba)-Some 197 Somali refugees including 41 women and 23 children reached Yemeni coastline, a media center of interior ministry reported on Thursday. The refugees arrived to coastline of Taiz, Abyan and Hadramout, the center added.

Recently, the Interior Ministry revealed that the number of Somali refugees, who arrived in the Yemeni territories during September 2009, amounted to about 3615 refugees among them about 1000 women and 100 children.

Meanwhile, Abyan police arrested 65 Ethiopians who entered the country via sea illegally.

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