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Fire doused on oil tanker attacked by Houthi rebels
Updated On: 28 January, 2024 07:26 AM IST | Yemen | Agencies
The Marlin Luanda tanker’s cargo tanks were hit, but no casualties were reported
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Ships in the Red Sea area have been under attacks since November by Iranian-backed group Houthi, which supports Palestine. Pic/AP
The crew aboard a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker hit by a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels extinguished an hour-long fire onboard the stricken vessel Saturday sparked by the strike, authorities said.
The attack on the Marlin Luanda further complicated the Red Sea crisis caused by the Iranian-backed rebels’ attacks over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The tanker carried Russian-produced naphtha, a flammable oil, drawing Moscow further into a conflict that so far it had blamed on the U.S.
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