Almotamar.net - Yemeni Interior Ministry gave instructions to coast guard forces in the Red Sea sector and security administration of Al-Hudeida province to prevent an Iranian boat called Kariky bearing the No. 17893, carrying a shipment of diseased sheep from entering the port.

The Ministry said in its internet site that veterinary examination of the sheep in the boat made on the animals while it passed in Qatar state revealed infected by anthrax disease. The ministry affirmed that after preventing it from entering Qatar, the boat headed for Yemen to unload its shipment of the infected sheep.