Overview
- A cargo vessel at anchor northeast of Perim Island was hit by an unidentified projectile in the Red Sea, British naval agency UKMTO reported, with the incident recorded on Tuesday.
- Yemeni coastguard and military sources say three crew members — two Pakistanis and one Indonesian aboard the Egyptian-managed Tihamah — were killed, but those deaths have not been independently confirmed and the Houthis have not claimed the strike.
- Authorities and maritime security firms have opened investigations and UKMTO has advised ships to sail with caution and report suspicious activity in the area.
- Separately, the Panama-flagged container ship Vela Nova was reported hit by a missile off Pakistan in a separate incident that media sources have linked to U.S. military action, complicating attribution across the region.
- Vessel traffic through the Bab al-Mandeb strait has fallen from about 50 ships per day to roughly 32 since the Houthi-declared maritime blockade, raising risks for global trade and increasing the stakes of the ongoing probes and military responses.