US Navy seizes consignment of assault rifles and ammunition bound for Yemen

The fishing vessel is intercepted by a motor launch dispatched by an American patrol boat (U.S. Navy via AP)

The US Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen.

US Navy patrol ships discovered the weapons aboard what the Navy described as a stateless fishing vessel in an operation that began on Monday in the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistan.