Almotamar.net - Coast Guard forces at the Gulf of Aden have lately captured three tons of hashish on board of a Pakistani boat. An American ship has at earlier time suspected the boat and intercepted it while it was sailing in the international waters bound for the Yemeni coasts.

The American ship gave the boat to be under control of the Yemeni Coast Guard troops there and they in turn searched the boat and discovered the quantity of hashish which was hidden inside it.

In another development Yemeni Coast Guard soldiers in the governorate of Hudeidah managed to rescue four persons from drowning while they were swimming in the shore of Kuthaib before they were swept by sea waves . Coast Guard men interfered to rescue the drowning persons and take them to hospital.