DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 A ship caught fire Saturday in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen after being struck by a projectile, the British military said, with one report suggesting its crew was preparing to abandon the vessel.<\/p>\n
The incident comes as Yemen\u2019s Houthi<\/a> rebels have been attacking ships through the Red Sea corridor. However, the rebels did not immediately claim this attack, though it can take them hours or even days to do so.<\/p>\n The British military\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center issued an alert about the vessel, describing the incident as taking place some 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of Aden. <\/p>\n \u201cA vessel has been hit by an unknown projectile, resulting with a fire,\u201d the UKMTO said. \u201cAuthorities are investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n The maritime security firm Ambrey described the ship as a Cameroon-flagged tanker that was \u201cen route from Sohar, Oman, to Djibouti.\u201d It said radio traffic suggested the crew was preparing to abandon ship and a search-and-rescue effort was underway.<\/p>\n Details offered about the ship appeared to correspond to the Falcon, a Cameroon-flagged tanker that carries liquefied petroleum gas. The Falcon previously had been identified by United Against Nuclear Iran, a New York-based pressure group, as operating allegedly in an Iranian \u201cghost fleet\u201d of ships moving their oil products in the high seas despite international sanctions. The ship\u2019s owners and operators, listed as being in India, could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n The Israeli military said it was aware of the strike on the ship, but that it did not carry out any operation in the area.<\/p>\n The Houthis have gained international prominence during the Israel-Hamas war over their attacks on shipping and Israel, which they said were aimed at forcing Israel to stop fighting. Since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10<\/a>, no attacks have been claimed by the rebel group. <\/p>\n The Houthi campaign against shipping has killed at least nine mariners and seen four ships sunk<\/a>. It upended shipping in the Red Sea<\/a>, through which about $1 trillion of goods passed each year before the war. The rebels\u2019 most recent attack hit the Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht<\/a> on Sept. 29, killing one crew member on board and wounding another.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Houthis have increasingly threatened Saudi Arabia and taken dozens of workers at United Nations agencies and other aid groups as prisoners, alleging without evidence they were spies \u2014 something fiercely denied by the world body and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 A ship caught fire Saturday in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,3881,4407,53191,10417,4216,57,141630,34081,99,157956,8132,50,2060,25680,376,4338,96,103,107,13193],"class_list":{"0":"post-313603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-boat-and-ship-accidents","11":"tag-coastlines-and-beaches","12":"tag-djibouti","13":"tag-fires","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-gulf-of-aden","16":"tag-houthis","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-mideast-wars-yemen","19":"tag-military-and-defense","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","22":"tag-transportation-and-shipping","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-kingdom-government","25":"tag-war-and-unrest","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-yemen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115395633095348247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}