Houthi Attack on Freighter Rubymar Caused Significant Damage to Ship, US Says

Houthi Attack on Freighter Rubymar Caused Significant Damage to Ship, US Says
A locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. AP Photo
Reuters
Updated:
0:00

CAIRO—An attack by Yemen’s Houthis on the freighter Rubymar caused significant damage to the ship and an 18-mile (29-km) oil slick, the U.S. military’s Central Command said on Friday.

Yemen’s Houthis targeted the Rubymar in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, and it is now at risk of sinking, the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement the following day.