The Red Sea shipping crisis entered a dark new chapter with the first seafarer deaths. The Houthis fired a missile on March 6 at the True Confidence, a 13-year-old, 50,448 dwt bulk carrier. The missile struck near the stern of the vessel. Three crew – a Vietnamese and two Filipinos – died, and two more were severely injured. To date, in their near six-month campaign in solidarity with Hamas, the Houthis from Yemen have targeted some 70 merchant ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, with pl...
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