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Last group of 16 Cambodian students evacuated from war-hit Yemen: PM

Xinhua, April 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that the last group of 16 Cambodian Muslim students, who were stranded in conflict-torn Yemen, have been evacuated.

"Dozens of Cambodian Muslim students studying in Yemen have been evacuated and the last group of 16 students will arrive (in Cambodia) today," he said during the opening ceremony of Angkor Sankranta festival in northwest Siem Reap province.

"We have worked very actively to evacuate them, and Qatar ( Airways) has offered free air tickets to those evacuees," he said.

Security sharply deteriorated in Yemen since early March when conflict erupted in several provinces in the country's southern regions. The conflict killed nearly 550 people over the past two weeks, according to a United Nations statement released last Wednesday.

The Shiite Houthi group launched attacks on Aden city, which Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi declared as the temporary capital after he fled weeks of house arrest by the Houthis in the capital Sanaa.

A Saudi-led coalition started airstrikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa and other cities, saying the multinational action was to protect Hadi's legitimacy and force the Houthis to retreat from cities it seized since September 2014. Endi