The Yemeni Houthis fired at the ship again, causing casualties and missing persons

Another merchant ship was attacked in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday. The team evacuated, there are injured and missing among the crew. Presumably, Yemeni Houthi forces hit the ship with a ballistic missile.

As reported by the media with reference to sources in the shipping industry, we are talking about the dry cargo True Confidence, which sailed under the flag of Barbados. Smoke was visible near the ship, the crew launched lifeboats. According to the latest data, three crew members went missing, four received serious burns.

According to the Trade Winds profile publication, in the morning a dry cargo ship near the port of Aden received a warning from a caller who identified himself as a representative of the Houthis. After that, the ship turned around and changed its course. A few hours later, other vessels in the region reported an explosion and plume of smoke in the area of ​​True Confidence. Their crews assisted the evacuated sailors.

According to the Reuters agency, the dry cargo remains afloat, the fire continues on it. There were 20 crew members and three armed guards on board.

• The Islamic radical Houthi group “Ansar Allah” controls the northern part of Yemen, including part of the sea coast. The government created by them is not recognized by the vast majority of countries in the world, including Russia.
• At the end of last year, the Houthis announced that they were joining the war against Israel on the side of the Hamas group, recognized as a terrorist group in the United States and the European Union, and began to fire at commercial ships in the Red Sea. At the same time, dry cargoes and tankers that have nothing to do with Israel are being attacked.
• About 12% of all commercial shipping in the world, including about 30% of all container traffic, passes through the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen. After the beginning of Houthi attacks on merchant ships, many shipping companies were forced to choose other routes, which significantly delayed and made transportation more expensive.