Cairo (ANTARA News) - Some 2,300 Indonesians are still staying in Yemen and hundreds already evacuated back to Indonesia in the worsening situation in that country.

"There are still 2,300 people, and they still had no wish for an evacuation," Indonesian ambassador to Yemen Nurul Aulia said from Cairo Thursday.

He said the Indonesians who are mostly staying in Hadramaut felt being and became reluctant for an evacuation as many of them wished to continue their study there.

Earlier, the Indonesian embassy in Sanaa has carried out four evacuations of hundreds of Indonesians in April and June this year.

With regard to deaths, Ambassador Aulia said two people died, and two others had injuries.

The two dead students were shot by rioters who attacked their campus, but they had already been buried at Darul Hadits in Dammaj village, Sa"adah, some 150 km north of Sana`a, he said.

The dead were Muhammad Soleh Bin Syamsul Bahri of Batubara, Medan, and Jamiri Abdullah of Kuala Simpang, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam.

The two injured students were Abdul Hadi of Medan, and Abu Yusuf from Ambon, and are being treated at a Sanaa hospital, Nurul Aulia said.

In the meantime, the political crisis in the most southern tip of the Arab peninsula had still no signs of a decline although President Ali Abdullah Saleh had signed an agreement to handover power on the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Bloody fights between anti-government protesters and security forces were still raging in the Sanaa capital and in some other cities. (*)

Editor: Aditia Maruli Radja
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