Shipping attacks escalate as US strikes cargo ship, Houthi attack kills six

An excavator works on the Gachin Bridge, which was damaged by a US strike, along the road between Bandar Abbas and Bandar Khamir, southern Iran. PIC/AFP

The US and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reported separate attacks on shipping on Tuesday as prospects for ending the Iran war appeared to dim, with Tehran saying the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed unless Washington accepts its conditions.

At the southern end of the Red Sea, four crew members were killed in a suspected Houthi attack on a small cargo vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, Yemen's Transport Ministry said. Two Yemeni rescuers from an anti-Houthi military group were also killed, Yemen's Coast Guard said.

The US military, meanwhile, said a US Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles to disable the steering gear of a Panama-flagged cargo ship that repeated warnings to stop violating a naval blockade on Iranian ports. The ship was hit off Pakistan while sailing into the Gulf of Oman.

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