A helicopter gunship attacked a boat packed with Somali migrants off the coast of Yemen overnight Thursday, killing at least 31 people, according to a U.N. agency, Yemeni officials and a survivor who witnessed the attack.
SEARCH IS ON FOR 10-FOOT CROCODILE WHO ATE A MAN WHILE FISHING IN MEXICOThe Houthis said they had shot down a helicopter gunship in the same area a day earlier, without providing evidence.
Yemen`s Shiite rebels accused the Saudi-led air coalition of carrying out the attack.
He described a scene of panic in which the refugees held up flashlights, apparently to show that they were poor migrants.
Al-Hassan Ghaleb Mohammed told The Associated Press the boat had left from Ras Arra, along the southern coastline in Yemen`s Hodeida province, and was 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the coast, near the Bab al-Mandab strait, when the helicopter gunship attacked.
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