A satellite imagery shows Bab el Mandeb Strait, a key shipping waterway and the gateway to the Red Sea, as Iran threatens using Yemen's Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, in this handout picture dated July 12, 2026. Nasa Worldview/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY MANDATORY CREDIT
DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A tanker was boarded by six armed people who took control of the vessel and diverted it towards Somalia, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Thursday.
UKMTO earlier said it had received a report of an incident 136 nautical miles east of Yemen’s Mukalla, where the tanker, traveling west in the Gulf of Aden, reported being approached by an unauthorized vessel.
UKMTO provided no further details and did not say whether the tanker or its crew were safe.
(Reporting by Jana Choukeir; Editing by Michael Georgy and Sharon Singleton)
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