Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have staged their first successful attack with a sea drone since they began targeting ships in November, underscoring the rebel group’s persistent threat to commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
The Royal Navy’s UK’s Maritime Trade Operations office on Wednesday said it received reports of a ship being struck on the stern about 66 nautical miles south-west of Yemen’s Hodeida port, by a white craft up to seven metres in length.
The vessel’s master warned it was taking on water and not under the command of the crew, before reporting that it had been struck for a second time by an airborne projectile.
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