Reports from Sudan say, at least 197 people were drowned after a boat carrying migrants to Saudi Arabia, caught fire and sank in the Red Sea, off the Sudanese coast. A semi-official news agency, the Sudanese Media Centre said, the victims were foreign illegal migrants. Only three people could be rescued. Most of them were from Chad, Somalia and Eritrea. Somalians and other migrants often cross the Red Sea to smuggle into Saudi Arabia or Yemen.