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A British-owned cargo ship sank within the Crimson Sea practically two weeks after it was broken in a missile assault by the Iran-backed Houthi militia, and the fertilizer it was carrying is now an environmental risk, the US navy stated late Saturday. Is producing.
The assault on the Rubymar ship final month concerned two anti-ship ballistic missiles launched from Yemen. The sinking seems to be the primary incident because the Houthis started concentrating on ships in an effort to stress Israel to finish its navy siege of Gaza.
The Central Command of the US Military has confirmed the sinking of Rubymar. assertion On social media. It stated the ship sank early Saturday carrying a load of 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulphate fertilizer, which now “poses an environmental risk within the Crimson Sea.”
Central Command stated the ship additionally poses a “subsurface impression danger” to different ships passing by means of the busy worldwide transport lane space.
Central Command warned final month that the Rubymar was an “environmental catastrophe” even earlier than the sinking as a result of the assault left an 18-mile oil slick. It says the catastrophe might be worse if the fertilizer spills into the ocean.
No different particulars in regards to the sinking, or the threats it posed to the setting or business transport, had been instantly accessible as of Sunday morning. Rubymar sailed with the Belize flag. Its Greece-based operator, Blue Fleet Group, didn’t reply to inquiries.
After the assault final month, 24 crew members of the Rubimars had been evacuated to Djibouti by a ship operated by a French transport firm. Djibouti port officers stated on the time that the crew members had been from Syria, Egypt, India and the Philippines.