A protestor lifts a mock drone with flags of Yemen and Palestine under a billboard depicting the picture of targeting an Israel-linked ship by Yemen’s Houthi forces in the Red Sea, during a demonstration staged against the latest aerial attacks hit Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah by Israel and its ongoing war on Palestine, on July 26, 2024, in Sana’a, Yemen. [Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images]
An Indian vessel sank after coming under attack in the Red Sea by an explosives-laden boat off Yemen’s western coast, with all 14 crew members rescued, Yemen’s government-aligned National Resistance Forces announced on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.
The forces’ December 2 news agency said the Faize Noore Oliya was attacked while sailing about 13 nautical miles south of Al Hudaydah, in the Red Sea, causing it to sink.
The agency did not give details about the circumstances of the attack or identify the party responsible.
It said the Yemeni Navy and Coast Guard carried out a joint rescue operation that saved all 14 crew members, including 13 Indian sailors and one Yemeni.
