On Sunday, a British maritime security company, Ambrey claimed that two ships had been targeted off Yemen, taking the total number of incidents recorded in less than a day to three.
No immediate claim was made but the attacks came during a campaign by Iran-backed Huthis in Yemen targeting ships. Ambrey did not mention whether the vessel was hit when he said that a vessel was targeted southwest of Mukalla, a port city in Yemen.
Reportedly, this was Ambrey’s second attack of the day. Earlier it had said that a projectile had fallen close to a ship southwest of the port of Aden in Yemen.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British security organization, reported that a missile impacted the water in close proximity to the ship. It said, ‘No damage to the vessel reported and crew reported safe’.
Sunday’s attacks come hours after two missiles targeted a ship southwest of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.
One missile was intercepted by US-led coalition forces and the second missed the ship. Since November, Huthi rebels have launched dozens of missile and drone strikes on shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The United States, which leads a multi-national flotilla planned to protect Red Sea shipping, has since mid-January launched repeated attacks on Huthi targets in Yemen. British warplanes have also taken part in several of the strikes.
On Thursday in a televised speech, Huthi chief Abdul Malik al-Huthi said 37 people had been killed in more than 400 strikes by US and British forces in Yemen since January.
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