The US Navy has reportedly impaired Houthi “small boats” whose crew members attempted to board a container vessel in the Red Sea. Four vessels from the Houthi-controlled areas based in Yemen had fired the Maersk Hangzhou and got within meters of the vessel, the US military declared.
Helicopters from the nearby US battleships responded to a distress call and, on being fired on, sank three vessels in self-defence. The crew members were killed, and the fourth one fled the zone. One of the Houthi...