DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Missile attacks twotimes harmed a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-owned ship Tuesday in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, with a personal security company stating radio traffic recommended the vessel took on water after being struck.
No group declared duty, however suspicion fell on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who haveactually introduced a number of attacks targeting ships over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The veryfirst attack on the bulk provider Laax tookplace off the port city of Hodeida in the southern Red Sea, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links it to the Gulf of Aden, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations . The vessel “sustained damage” in the attack and lateron reported an “impact in the water in close distance to the vessel,” the UKMTO stated.
“The team are reported safe and the vessel is case to its next port of call,” the center stated.
The personal security company Ambrey stated the vessel reported by radio of having “sustained damage to the freight hold and was taking on water.”
Late Tuesday night, the UKMTO reported the Laax “sustained additional damage” in a 2nd rocket attack near Mokha in the Bab el-Mandeb.
The U.S. military’s Central Command likewise recognized the targeted ship as the Laax. The vessel reported being headed to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.