A commercial ship traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attack Wednesday, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze after an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the British military said.
Few details were immediately available about the attack, though it comes during the Houthis’ months-long campaign targeting ships over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
The attack saw men on small boats first open fire with small arms some 90 miles west of the rebel-held Yemeni port city of Hodeida, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said.
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Four projectiles also hit the ship, it added. It was not immediately clear if that meant drones or missiles.
“The vessel reports being not
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