Ambrey says bulker was targeted by missiles in Bab al-Mandab


  • World
  • Monday, 12 Feb 2024

DUBAI (Reuters) - British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Monday that a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier was targeted by missiles in two separate incidents within two minutes while transiting through the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

The bulker was reportedly hit and sustained physical damage on the starboard side, Ambrey added.

Ambrey had first reported that the carrier had sighted a projectile near the vessel 23 nautical miles northeast of Djibouti's Khor Angar and 40 nautical miles southwest of Yemen's Red Sea port city of Mokha.

(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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