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Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for attack on US ship in Arabian Sea

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The Yemeni Houthis said on Tuesday that they had attacked the Maersk Sentosa ship in the Arabian Sea with several ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.

“The American ship Maersk Sentosa was attacked in the Arabian Sea in a joint operation by naval and missile forces,” Yahya Sarea, the Yemeni group’s military spokesman, said in a televised address.

On Tuesday, shipping giant Maersk announced that one of its ships, the Maersk Sentosa, had been attacked by a flying object in the north of the Gulf of Aden.

Maersk MAERSKb.CO told Reuters that no injuries to the crew or damage to the ship or cargo had been reported.

A spokesman for the Copenhagen-based company said the ship was one of its U.S.-flagged vessels operating for its subsidiary Maersk Line, Limited.

A Houthi supporter holds a rocket launcher as others carry a cut-out banner with the image of the Houthi-hijacked cargo ship Galaxy Leader, during a parade as part of a mobilization campaign by the movement’s “People’s Army” in Sanaa, Yemen, February 7, 2024. (Source: REUTERS/KHALED ABDULLAH)

The captain of an unnamed merchant ship reported an explosion near the ship about 180 nautical miles (333 kilometers) east of the Yemeni city of Nishtun, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said in a statement on Tuesday.

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UKMTO added that the ship and its crew were safe.

Sarea also said the group attacked the ship Marathopolis in the Arabian Sea and the ship MSC Patnaree in the Gulf of Aden with several drones.

Since November, Houthi terrorists in Yemen have launched drone and missile attacks on ships in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war.



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