The captain of a service provider ship east of Yemen’s Aden has reported an explosion close to the ship, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) company stated early on Sunday.
“No damage to the vessel has been reported and the crew are reported safe. The vessel is proceeding to its next port of call,” UKMTO stated in an advisory word.
The ship was 85 nautical miles (157 km, 98 miles) east of Aden, in an space the place Houthi militant teams usually goal ships they are saying are linked to Israel or the United States.
Months of Red Sea assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants have disrupted international delivery, forcing companies to re-route to longer and costlier journeys round southern Africa, and stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas struggle might unfold to destabilise the broader Middle East.
The United States and Britain have launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen and redesignated the militia as a terrorist group.
On Saturday, the U.S. army stated it destroyed a drone fired by the Yemeni Houthis, with one other presumed to have crashed into the Red Sea.
(Reuters – Reporting by Hatem Maher; Editing by Tom Hogue and Edmund Klamann)
