On Saturday, the U.S. Central Command said, ‘United States forces engaged six Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over the southern Red Sea after the group launched four anti-ship ballistic missiles toward a Chinese-owned oil tanker’.
The Central Command said in a post on X, ‘Iranian-backed Houthis launched the missiles in the vicinity of M/V Huang Pu, a Chinese-owned oil tanker’.
‘Towards the oil tanker, a fifth missile was fired which issued a distress call’, said the Central Command said.
Command added, ‘That no casualties were reported in the incident and a fire on board was extinguished’.
The Central Command said, ‘United States forces then engaged six UAVs, five of which hit the Red Sea, and one flew inland into Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen’.
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