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Al-fahad fishing boat found off coast of Aal-amra and all on borar in good health
[The Source: MUKALLA/hadhrramaut.info - 18/10/2010]
Fishing boat nicknamed( Al-fahad), which sailed from the island of Socotra on October 10 heading to Mukalla and on board were seven sailors and fifteen students that reported missing was found yesterday.
In a telephone conversation with Mr. Abdullah Houd Al-chmeili owner of the boat, he said that he had received a telephone call from the crew of the boa tAl-Fahd telling him that they had run out diesel and were by taken away by the ocean currents to as far as 36 nautical miles from the Hasuein area in Gishn District of al-Mahra Ading that that all the crew of the boat and the students traveling with them are in good health and today Tuesday, October 19 a boat was sent to provide them with diesel, water and food. According to the Security Information Center of Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry has used helicopters from the Ministry of Defence to search for the boat in addition toCoast Guard craft , Naval Base and a set of boats belongs to other fishemmen from Mukalla city and the Socotra archipelago to help in the search for the missing boat.. It is worth mentioning that the missing of boat raised the problem of high prices of airline tickets to Socotra Island as the extent that they are fare was many time higher than the usual price and reache near to some some international flights.
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