July 10 (UPI) -- At least three crew members were killed and an unknown number of mostly Filipino seamen were missing at sea or being held hostage Thursday after Houthi rebels attacked and sank a Greek bulk carrier ship in the Red Sea off the Yemeni port city of Al Hudaydah.
Operation Aspides, the European Union freedom of navigation naval mission in the Red Sea, said that it had pulled four more men from the sea overnight.
"During the night, three additional crew members from the MV Eternity C -- Filipino nationality -- and one from the Maritime Security Team of Greek nationality have been recovered from the sea, bringing the total number of those rescued to 10," EUNavforAspides said in a post on X.
The British Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Operations center said that a search and rescue operation for others was ongoing after Eternity C went down at around 7 p.m. local time Wednesday after coming under sustained attack from multiple small craft firing rocket-propelled grenades.
In an alert issued prior to the sinking, the Dubai-based agency said at least five RPGs had been fired at the 23,000-ton vessel, which had a crew of 25, and that it had sustained significant damage, had lost all propulsion and was under "continuous attack" from small craft surrounding it.
