Tropical Storm Hits Yemen’s Socotra, State of Emergency Declared

Tropical Storm Hits Yemen’s Socotra, State of Emergency Declared
An image grab taken from an AFPTV video shows people walking through flood water as they evacuate a flooded area during a cyclone in the Yemeni island of Socotra, May 24, 2018. Stringer/AFP/Getty Images
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DUBAI—Yemen declared a state of emergency on Socotra on Thursday after a tropical storm flooded several villages and capsized boats on the island and left at least 17 people missing, government officials said.

Socotra, which lies between the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa, has been largely untouched by a three-year-old war in Yemen and is under the control of the internationally recognized government whose president remains in exile in Saudi Arabia.