Jamil Jadabi almotar.net - SANAA- An official source at Hudeida port operations said Monday that seven survivors out of 17 Yemeni soldiers whose boat capsized in the sea days ago, have been carried to Al-Makha port Monday morning. The commercial ship Yemen Oil-6 has also carried corpses of the other ten soldiers drowned in the incident.

The source made it clear to almotamar.net that the ship spotted them in the sea after their boat capsized and caused the drowning of ten of their colleague soldiers. The source confirmed death of 10 of the 17 soldiers on board of the boat which capsized because of high waves while they were heading from the island of Zaqr bound to al-Makha port, 34 miles away from the island. He said communication was cut with the boat for days, expecting that the commercial ship will be at Hudeida port on Thursday morning, carrying the survivors and the corpses of the ten drowned others.