Houthis Fired Missile at Chinese-Owned Ship in Red Sea, U.S. Says

(Bloomberg) — Yemen-based Houthis fired a missile at a Chinese-owned oil tanker called M/V Huang Pu on Saturday, the U.S. Central Command said.

The Iranian-backed Houthis first fired four missiles in the vicinity of the oil tanker, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. They then fired a fifth missile toward the ship, which issued a distress call but didn’t request assistance, Centcom said.