Yemen’s Houthis have mounted one of their most damaging attacks yet on a commercial vessel when the Iran-backed group damaged a bulk carrier in an incident that forced its crew to abandon the ship.
The attack on the Rubymar, which was carrying cargo from the United Arab Emirates to Bulgaria, underlines the Houthis’ continuing threat to ships traversing the Red Sea despite a recent lull in successful strikes as a result of regular US and UK attacks on missile launching sites.
The strike came late on Sunday, hours after the US’s central military command (Centcom) said it had identified a submarine drone among the rebel group’s military arsenal for the first time.
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