Vessel on fire off Yemen after being struck in apparent attack, UK military says
The Houthi missile strike on the Dutch cargo ship Minervagracht caused substantial damage and injured two crew members amid ongoing regional conflicts, disrupting a major shipping route.
- A likely missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden on Monday.
- Local Yemeni media reported a possible ballistic missile launch from territory controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthis.
- The UK Maritime Trade Operations described the incident as an attack and urged ships in the area to exercise caution.
- The Houthis have been launching missile and drone attacks on ships in the Red Sea in response to the war in Gaza, claiming solidarity with Palestinians.
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The Iran-backed Houthi movement has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Dutch cargo ship earlier this week. The incident occurred in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, when the ship MV Minervagracht was hit by some kind of projectile, causing a fire and injuring crew members. The Houthi movement, which controls large parts of the...
Two sailors injured and evacuation operation underway - A fire has broken out on the ship and it is sailing unmanned in the Gulf of Aden
London (Agencies) – The European Red Sea mission, Aspedes, announced that it had rescued 19 sailors from the crew of a Dutch cargo ship after it was attacked off the coast of Yemen. The mission added on the X platform that the ship had lost control and drifted at sea 128 nautical miles southeast of the port of Aden. It indicated that a number of seriously injured people were transferred to nearby medical facilities. Aspedes and the operator of t…
Filipino-crewed cargo ship attacked by Houthis in Gulf of Aden, two wounded
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set a Dutch-flagged cargo ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden on Monday, officials said, wounding two mariners and forcing its crew to abandon the damaged vessel.It was the most serious attack in the Gulf of Aden, some distance from the Red Sea, where the Iranian-backed Houthis sank two vessels in July.While the rebels did not claim the assault on the Minervagracht, they had thr…
Crew Safe as Dutch-Flagged Cargo Ship Remains Adrift and Ablaze in Gulf of Aden
The Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht was ablaze and adrift in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, a day after being hit by an explosive device that injured two seafarers and forced the crew's evacuation, its operator and the EU maritime mission Aspides said.It was unclear if the ship was targeted by
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