UKMTO reports of incident 76nm northwest of Yemen's Hodeidah
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said early on Saturday that it received a report of an incident 76 nautical miles northwest of Yemen's Hodeidah.
The Houthi militia that controls the most populous parts of Yemen and is aligned with Iran has staged attacks on ships in the waters off the country for months in solidarity with Palestinians fighting Israel in Gaza. The Houthi militants have launched repeated drone and missile strikes in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November.
That has forced shippers to re-route cargo on longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa and stoked fears the Israel-Hamas war could spread and destabilise the Middle East.
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