Saudi-led Coalition Admits Emirati Ship Hit off Southwestern Yemeni Coast
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Saudi-led coalition admitted on Thursday an Emirati ship was hit by a missile near the Bab al-Mandab strait, a day after Yemeni Joint Forces announced they had targeted a Saudi-led warship off Taiz coast.
The coalition, which has been launching a brutal war on Yemen since March 2015, did not name the vessel or say whether it was civilian or military. It said a crew was injured in the attack.
The vessel was leaving the port of Mokha, in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz, when the attack occurred but the ship itself was not damaged, the coalition said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Yemeni Joint Forces Committees announced they had hit a Saudi-led warship in waters off the southwestern province of Taiz.
Local military source reported that the warship was in the Yemeni territorial water, near the port city of Mokha in Taiz, when targeted by the allied forces confronting the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
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