Tanker sustains damage as Houthis intensify attacks

For the first time in over a month, a ship has suffered damage in a Houthi missile attack in the Red Sea, as the Iran-backed rebels step up their assaults.

The US Central Command said that at 5.49 pm Yemen time on 26 April, Houthis launched three anti-ship ballistic missiles (ABSM) near the 2009-built Panama-flagged Aframax tanker, Andromeda Star, which is believed to be owned by unknown UK interests, and a 2002-built Antigua and Barbados-flagged Suezmax tanker, Maisha. The ships were 14...

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