At least 3 killed on shipping vessel in first fatal Houthi attack since start of Israel-Hamas war
At least three sailors were killed Wednesday in a Houthi attack on a Barbados-flagged shipping vessel in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. and British officials said, the first fatal attack by the group since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
At least three sailors were killed Wednesday in a Houthi attack on a Barbados-flagged shipping vessel in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. and British officials said, the first fatal attack by the group since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
"This was the sad and predictable result of the Houthis’ reckless missile launches on international shipping," the British Embassy in Yemen said on X. "They must stop."
A U.S. defense official confirmed the fatal attack, adding that four other people were injured, three of whom were in critical condition, and that the crew abandoned the Liberian-owned ship. An anti-ship ballistic missile was launched around 11:30 a.m. local time from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen and caused significant damage, the official said.
"These reckless attacks by the Houthis have not only disrupted global trade and commerce but also taken the lives of international seafarers simply doing their jobs — indeed, some of the hardest jobs in the world, and ones relied on by the global public for sustainment of supply chains," the official said.
The Yemen-based militant group said in a statement that it launched missiles on a bulk carrier, called True Confidence, "as part of the response to the American-British aggression against our country." According to the group, the vessel was targeted after "the ship’s crew ignored the Yemeni naval forces’ warning messages."
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