Almotamar.net - Yemeni ministry of interior announced the arrest of five Somali fishermen off the coast of Al-Ghaidha of Mahara province and in their possession were weapons and projectiles and explosive charges.

The ministry said the five Somali fishermen, of 21-35 years of age, on board of a large fishing boat equipped with two 40-hosrspower engines.

The ministry's security Information Centre has quoted the security apparatuses as saying the weapons seized with the Somali fishermen were 10 pieces of RPK machine-guns, 2-6 RPK shells in addition to 6 explosive charges in addition to ammunition.

The Centre added that security authorities in Mahara province retained the boat and the arrested fishermen and referred them to interrogation.

On the other hand Yemeni security apparatuses arrested 107 African migrants in the island of Midi holding Nigerian, Chadian and Sudanese nationalities. The security men also said 2 of the African migrants; one Nigerian youth and a woman in her 6th decade have died and doctors said the death was natural.

The rest of the African migrants were transported to the Centre Al-Jazeera Leadership for investigation and then they were detained in Hudeida province. It is to be noted that this is the third rime African migrants to attempt to infiltrate into Yemeni territories via the island of Midi. On most occasions investigations proved that the African migrants, mostly Sudanese, were intending to infiltrate into Saudi territories across Yemeni territories.