Video has emerged on YouTube showing the 163,000 dwt Greek-flagged tanker Sounion ablaze following multiple Houthi attacks and threatening to cause an environmental disaster.
The U.S. Mission to Yemen issued this statement, August 25:
“The United States is gravely concerned by the Houthis’ attacks against the oil tanker MT Delta Sounion. The Houthis’ continued attacks threaten to spill a million barrels of oil into the Red Sea, an amount four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster. While the...