Sana'a - The number of people killed in floods in Yemen raised to 50, officials said on Saturday.

About 4300 family were displaces and 877 homes destroyed, after floods from heavy rains hit two provinces in south- eastern Yemen o n Friday, officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Hamid al-Khanbashi security chief of the province of Hadhramout, some 900 kilometres from the capital Sana'a, said that the number of victims in the province reached 37 people in the province. 2300 family displaced and 500 homes destroyed.

The Yemeni government used schools and government facilities as shelters for families, the official told dpa.

Abu Dhabi - The United Arab Emirates said on Friday it would provide emergency aid to those affected by flooding in Yemen that has left at least 20 people dead, the official WAM news agency reported.

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan said he would provide "emergency aid as a relief to those hit by the flood in Yemen," without stating the amount of the aid, the agency reported.

At least 20 people died and dozens more were missing after floods from heavy rains hit two provinces in Yemen on Friday. Yemeni officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that nearly 400 homes were destroyed in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout, some 900 kilometres from the capital Sana'a.

Sana'a, Yemen - At least nine people were killed and dozens were missing after floods from heavy rains hit eastern Yemen, officials said on Friday.

The officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that nearly 400 homes were destroyed in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout, some 900 kilometres from the capital Sana'a.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared Hadhramout a disaster zone.

Governor Salem al-Khanbashi told the state radio that fatalities were reported from different areas of Hadhramout, but accurate figures could not be gathered owing to the difficulties of reaching all the affected areas.

Nairobi - More than 33,000 people, the vast majority of them Somalis fleeing a bloody insurgency in their homeland, have fled across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen this year, the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR said Friday.

At least 230 people have been confirmed dead and an estimated 365 remain missing as result of crossings gone wrong, often as a result of unscrupulous smugglers forcing the migrants overboard.

The number fleeing is twice as high as the previous period last year. Over two-thirds of the migrants are Somali, while the majority of the others are Ethiopian, UNHCR said.

Increasing numbers of Somalis are fleeing the Islamist insurgency in their country as violence has picked up in recent months.

New Delhi, Oct. 16 : The Indian Government has reportedly taken a decision to deploy a naval warship in the Gulf of Aden to ward off pirate attacks on merchant vessels flying the Indian tricolour.

"The government today approved deployment of an Indian Naval warship in the Gulf of Aden to patrol the normal route followed by Indian flagships during passage between Salalah in Oman and Aden in Yemen," a Defence Ministry spokesperson announced in New Delhi.

Sana'a, Yemen  - Six militants from the Islamic Jihad organization arrested by Yemeni police had tried to approach an Israeli intelligence agency for help to carry out terrorist attacks in the Arab state, a security source said on Tuesday.

The source's comments come one day after Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Yemeni police had dismantled a terrorist cell five days ago that was linked to Israeli intelligence services.