Yemen Monitor/ Newsroom
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported on Friday that a commercial vessel off the coast of Yemen had been targeted in a series of attacks involving rockets and a drone, without causing any casualties or damage.
In a memo, the UKMTO, which is operated by the British Royal Navy, stated that it had received a report from a ship on Thursday evening about a “rocket-propelled grenade attack that exploded near it, launched by two boats… each carrying four people.”
The incident occurred approximately 45 nautical miles south of the Yemeni city of Mocha, overlooking Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic waterway connecting the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea.
Early Friday morning, UKMTO indicated another attack targeting the same vessel with a “rocket explosion a short distance from it.”
Hours later, the Maritime Security Agency announced that it had received a report of a “third attack on the vessel launched by a surface drone,” noting that the ship’s armed security team “fired on the boat, which exploded at a distance from the ship.”
Later, the ship reported a fourth attack on it with a “rocket falling into the sea near it,” according to UKMTO, noting that “the crew and the ship are fine and are heading to the next port.”
