A Saudi-led military coalition foiled attacks by explosives-laden speedboats deployed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement against commercial vessels, including an oil tanker, in the Red Sea, Saudi and Emirati state media said on Wednesday.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) state news agency WAM reported that UAE coalition forces had destroyed two boats "which were threatening a commercial oil tanker" in the Red Sea. Two other Houthi boats escaped, it added.
Later Saudi state news channel al-Ekhbariya said that remote-controlled speedboats rigged with explosives had tried to attack three commercial vessels being escorted by two coalition warships, but that coalition forces had foiled the attack and destroyed three speedboats.