British maritime security company Ambrey said on Thursday that a commercial ship reported that an explosion occurred near it in the Red Sea on Thursday, approximately 19 nautical miles west of Mokha, Yemen.

Embry stated in a memorandum that the ship’s specifications match the category targeted by the Houthi movement, which has been launching attacks on ships off the coast of Yemen for several months.

The British Maritime Security Company said that the ship was on its way from Europe to the Emirates and was not transmitting an automatic identification system signal at that time. No other details were mentioned.

The Yemeni Houthi group has been launching drone and missile attacks on ships on the vital shipping route in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden since November.

This forced shipping companies to divert goods to longer and more expensive routes from the Cape of Good Hope route around South Africa, and raised fears that the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) would expand and destabilize the Middle East.< /p>