Some 8,005 Yemenis returned to their country on Thursday from Egypt, Jordan and India via Bisha airport in southern Saudi Arabia.

The Riyadh-based King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Works said in a statement on Thursday the Yemenis reached Sanaa international airport in coordination with Saudi authorities.

The center spokesman Raafat al-Sabbagh said the center was keen on returning all Yemenis stranded in Arab and foreign countries to their homeland.