YEMEN FOILS 500 ATTEMPTS TO SNEAK INTO SAUDI ARABIA

SANA'A, June 09 (Saba) - Yemen has thwarted about 500 attempts of
Africans to sneak into Saudi Arabia since the beginning of 2010.

A source in the Interior Ministry said that Yemen is considered as a
gateway for many nationalities, including Arab, Somali, Chadian and
Ethiopian, to the Middle East. They cross the Gulf of Aden move on
to Yemen's neighbors Saudi Arabia in pursuit of jobs.

In related news, Saudi security authorities have shot an Ethiopian
citizen, 30, while he was trying to pass the Yemeni-Saudi border
through Haradh area.

The man is hospitalizing now in Haradh Hospital.

MD/AF