After rocket attack by Houthi
Fire extinguished on tanker in Red Sea
January 27, 2024, 4:17 p.m
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On Friday evening, the Houthi rebels again attacked a tanker in the Red Sea. A fire then broke out on board the freighter. The fire-fighting work on the “Marlin Luanda” lasted all night. The all-clear can now be given.
After the Houthi missile attack on a tanker in the Gulf of Aden, the fire on board has been extinguished. This was announced by the Trafigura Group, on whose behalf the tanker was traveling, according to the British news agency PA.
The “Marlin Luanda” was attacked on Friday evening by rockets from the militant Islamist Houthi militia from Yemen and caught fire. According to information, the extinguishing work lasted the entire night. The statement praised the crew’s efforts and thanked the support of Indian, French and US warships. The crew is safe. The ship is now on its way to a safe port, it said.
The British government strongly condemned the attack, which the Houthis claimed as their own. “We have made clear that any of these attacks on merchant vessels are completely unacceptable and that Britain and its allies have the right to respond appropriately,” a British government spokesman said.
The Houthis have repeatedly targeted ships since the beginning of the Gaza war between Israel and the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas. The militia is acting in solidarity with Hamas and is targeting freighters with alleged Israeli connections off the Yemeni coast.
One of the most important shipping routes for world trade runs along Yemen, through which freighters from the Indian Ocean reach the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal in Egypt. In response to the attacks, the USA and Great Britain carried out several military strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen.
Meanwhile, 22 countries have called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to immediately stop their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. At the same time, they defended the American and British attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen in a published statement, saying that they were carried out “in exercise of their inherent right to individual and collective self-defense in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.” The declaration was signed by Germany, several EU states, Kenya, the USA and Great Britain, among others.