Houthis claim responsibility for attacks on six ships in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Mediterranean

DUBAI, May 29 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthis launched attacks on six ships in three different seas, including the Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier Laax The plane was damaged after a Houthi missile attack was reported off the coast of Yemen, the Iran-backed group said on Wednesday.

The Laax was attacked on Tuesday. The Houthis also launched attacks against the More a And sailor Ships in the Red Sea, the Alba And Maersk Hartford in the Arabian Sea and in the Minvera Antonia in the Mediterranean, military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a televised address.

The Laaxcarrying a cargo of grain was hit by five missiles fired from Yemen, but the ship was still able to reach its destination and the crew was safe, the ship’s security company, LSS-SAPU, told Reuters on Wednesday.

“The ship has suffered damage, it is not taking on water, it is not tipping over and there are no injuries on board,” said a spokesman for the LSS-SAPU.

“She is moving towards her destination at normal speed.”

The spokesman of the LSS-SAPU, which is responsible for the evacuation of the crew from the Rubymar Ship that sank earlier this year after being hit by a Houthi missile, said Laax’s The owner, based in Greece, had no connection to Israel or the United States.

LSEGshipping data shows that the ship last reported its position on May 28, heading for Bandar Imam Khomeini in Iran.

The Houthis, who describe their attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians in Israel’s Gaza war, have carried out repeated drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea region since November and later expanded their attacks to the Indian Ocean.

They promised to attack any ship heading for Israeli ports, including in the Mediterranean.

The group managed to sink a ship, the Rubymarhijacked another ship, killing two crew members, and disrupted global shipping traffic by forcing ships to avoid the nearby Suez Canal and reroute their trade around Africa.

(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Clauda Tanios and Jonathan Saul; Editing by Michael Georgy, Nick Macfie, William Maclean)

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