Crew abandon ship ‘attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels’

Ships have been targeted by Houthi rebels (Planet Labs PBC/PA)

The crew of a commercial ship struck in a suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have abandoned the vessel in the Gulf of Aden.

The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said that the Barbados-flagged True Confidence was no longer under the command of its crew.