Fire breaks out as Houthis hit vessel with “missile” near Yemen’s Aden

Yemen’s Houthis said on Friday their naval forces carried out an operation targeting “the British oil tanker Marlin Luanda” in the Gulf of Aden causing a fire to break out.

They used “a number of appropriate naval missiles, the strike was direct,” the Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement.

British maritime security firm Ambrey also said on Friday that a fire broke out as a merchant vessel was hit with a “missile” southeast of Yemen’s Aden.

The crew were reported safe, Ambrey added in an advisory note.

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) also said it had received a report of an incident 60 nautical miles south east of Yemen’s Aden.

Authorities are investigating, it added.