Yesterday the British United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced that it had received communication from the commander of a tanker ship that reported that it had heard an explosion while sailing in the South Red Sea. The commander specified that neither the ship nor the crew suffered damage. Yesterday evening the Militia spokesman Houthi, Yahya Sare'e, claimed an attack against the chimichiera NCC Ghazal of the Saudi Bahri conducted - it has specified - to have violated the marine embargo imposed to the Saudi enemy and for having ignored the warnings". He said the ship was hit by several missiles and was forced to reverse the route.

The NCC Ghazal, which has a gross reach of more than 46 thousand tons, is the fourth ship of the Bahri company to have been attacked in the Red Sea within a few days. Friday, in fact, had been targeted the chimichiera NCC Masa, which has the same scope and has not been damaged. The Saudi company had announced that the NCC Masa had continued the planned journey. In previous days two more ships of the Bahri, the VLCC Lay and the product tanker Ence, had been attacked, accidents that had been claimed by the Houthi Yemenis.