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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) on August 11 attacked a commercial vessel near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off the southern coast of Yemen, killing at least six people.
In a statement, the coastguard from Yemen’s internationally recognised government said four sailors aboard the vessel — identified as the Egyptian-owned, Tanzanian-flagged Tihamah small deck cargo ship — were among the dead along with two members of the forces deployed during a rescue mission to evacuate the ship.
The initial salvo targeting the ship “caused a fire to break out aboard the vessel and inflicted extensive damage, in addition to causing deaths and injuries among its crew, including three Pakistani nationals and one Indonesian national killed,” the coastguard added. A second strike targeted the vessel as rescue workers carried out a mission to evacuate the ship.
“The attack struck the site of the rescue operation and resulted in deaths and injuries among the forces participating in the response operation,” the coastguard said, noting that ten people were injured over the course of the strikes.
The Houthis later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a brief statement that the vessel was carrying Saudi military equipment.
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The attack marked the first deaths in a Houthi strike on shipping since the United States-Israeli war on Iran started on February 28.
The Houthis announced a “maritime blockade” against Saudi Arabia last month, and since then, the group has carried out a series of attacks targeting Saudi airports, oil facilities, Yemeni government forces, and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Although the Houthis have publicly stated that their goal was not to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, traffic through the strategic waterway was impacted to some degree.
According to recent reports from Reuters, Lloyd’s List Intelligence, Windward, and Clarksons Research, the Houthis’ maritime blockade on Saudi shipping caused vessel traffic through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to drop by roughly 22–24% overall, with sharper declines of 31–46% for tankers and Saudi-linked vessels, reaching daily lows around 11–15 ships in late July before stabilizing at reduced levels into early August.
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