48 hours after the attack, the world's largest shipping company, Maersk, has decided to halt operations in the Red Sea.
In the Red Sea, US soldiers sink "Houthi" boats following an attack on a Maersk freighter.
48 hours after the attack, the world's largest shipping company, Maersk, has decided to halt operations in the Red Sea.
US Navy personnel aboard the missile destroyer USS Gravely in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda [Photo: Reuters/Jains Laizans]
Released on December 31, 2023
As it carries out its patrol operation in the Red Sea to address threats posed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the US military claims to have sunk three boats that were attacking a container ship.
In self-defense on Sunday morning, helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely, two US warships, fired at the "Iranian-backed Houthi small boats" in response to an SOS call from the Singapore-flagged ship Maersk Hangzhou. It stated that some of the boats' crew members were killed when US helicopters sank three of them. Four boats managed to get away.
CENTCOM claimed in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Maersk Hangzhou had issued a distress call after being fired at by the Houthi boats, which approached it as close as 20 meters (65 feet) and attempted to board it.
