Three crew members of a merchant ship were killed in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday when it was hit by a missile fired from Yemen, the US military said.
At around 10:30am (GMT) yesterday, an anti-ship ballistic missile was fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen against the True Confidence, a “Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned” dry bulk carrier, the joint command of the armed forces of the US in charge of the Middle East region (CENTCOM, “Central Command”).
“The missile struck the ship and the crew reported three deaths, at least four injuries, three of them critically, and extensive damage,” CENTCOM clarified via X (formerly Twitter).
Taking to social networking sites, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Shari noted for his part that the True Confidence was hit by “missiles” after its crew defied “warning messages”.
Earlier yesterday, maritime security services said a cargo ship had been attacked and damaged off Aden, in southern Yemen, a country that has been at war for the past decade.
The British Maritime Safety Agency UKMTO noted via X that the crew were forced to abandon the vessel, which is now unmanned.
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