\n An Indian-flagged vessel has been struck and sunk by a projectile off the coast of Yemen, Indian authorities said Tuesday, in the latest incident to underscore the ongoing risk to shipping in the region.\n <\/p>\n
\n The MSV Faize Noore Oliya was \u201chit by a projectile near Yemeni waters,\u201d Sarbananda Sonowal, India\u2019s Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, said in a post on X. He did not say who was responsible for the attack.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIndia strongly condemns this unprovoked attack on the defenseless mechanised sailing vessel,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe safety of our people is our supreme priority & I am relieved to inform that ALL 14 seafarers (including 13 Indians) have been safely rescued by the Yemeni Coast Guard and brought to the Port of Mokha.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n India\u2019s foreign ministry called \u201cthe continuing incidents of attacks\u201d on vessels in a region \u201cdeeply worrisome,\u201d in a post on X. It also called for an end to the targeting of commercial shipping in the region.\n <\/p>\n
\n Yemen\u2019s transportation ministry accused \u200bYemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out the \u200battack by using an explosive-laden boat, according to Reuters. There was no comment from the group, the news agency added. The Houthis last month threatened to disrupt shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a chokepoint at the southern end of the Red Sea, expanding a conflict that has already blocked oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz.\n <\/p>\n
\n Major seafaring nation: India is one of the largest suppliers of merchant marine labor, with more than 300,000 seafarers globally. Many of them work on vessels operating in the volatile region, leaving them particularly exposed when tensions escalate, and there have been multiple fatalities of Indian seafarers.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian-flagged vessel has been struck and sunk by a projectile off the coast of Yemen, Indian authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-803235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}