Houthis hit food freighter in Red Sea, double-tapping rescue crew
Just when global shipping thought the Bab al-Mandab route couldn't get any more perilous, missile strikes take out a grocery vessel and the team trying to rescue it.
A commercial vessel named the Tihamah was making its way through the Red Sea carrying a shipment of food when Houthi militants fired a missile at it. The strike sparked a massive fire on board that killed four crew members from Indonesia and Pakistan.
Then things took an even darker turn. When local coast guard teams rushed in to pull survivors from the burning wreck, a second missile struck the rescue mission, killing two first responders on the spot.
The vessel itself has a murky pedigree—registered under a Tanzanian flag, reportedly owned by an Egyptian firm, and described as local by Yemeni authorities. But for coastal missile batteries, technicalities apparently don't matter much when cargo is in range.
International trade routes are now operating under full pirate-movie rules, just with precision-guided anti-ship missiles.
Source: BBC
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