Yemeni police managed to set free 21 illegal Ethiopian nationals, who were kidnapped and held to ransom by gangsters in the northern province of Hajjah.
In a statement released today, the Ministry of Interior said police forces raided the place where the hostages were kept in and arrested 3 members of the armed gang.
When raiding the place, the gangsters were torturing and beating the hostages with wires and chains, said the statement.
The hostages told the police that they had been kidnapped and kept in a room in the backyard of a house and that they were forced to contact their relatives working in the Gulf States and ask them to pay ransom for their release, according to the statement posted on the official website of the Interior Ministry.
After releasing them, the police sent the hostages to the Voluntary Migrants Return Center which belongs to the International Organization for Migration.
Early this month, the Interior Ministry revealed that an armed gang had kidnapped some illegal African refugees in the northern area of Hardh, located along the borders with Saudi Arabia.
Yemen is the destination of thousands of illegal immigrants coming from the Horn of Africa. They risk their lives and cross the sea to get to the poor Gulf state. Most of the illegal refugees take Yemen as a transit as they later smuggle to the oil top exporter, Saudi Arabia.
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