Red Sea - Houthi rebels take German container ship under fire
The Yemeni Huthi rebels have apparently attacked a container ship operated by the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd in the Red Sea.
"There has been an attack on one of our ships," a spokesman for the shipping company told the AFP news agency. A spokesman for the US Department of Defense said that the freighter had been hit by a projectile fired from a region in Yemen controlled by the Huthi militia.
According to the AP news agency, no one on board was injured.
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Source: www.stern.de
