Two-hundred Somali refugees were arrested and detained in Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.

Undocumented Somali refugees were arrested by Hadramaut police while travelling towards the Brom Mayfa district.

“The refugees, including a number of women and children, reached Yemen by sea,” Hadramaut police said.

The refugees have been transferred to the nearby Shabwa province, south of Yemen, in a camp for African refugees.

Some 133 Somali refugees have since returned to Somalia voluntarily, according to the International Organisations for Migration.

Refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia travel to Yemen in the hope of crossing the northern Yemen boarder to reach Saudi Arabia.