The Yemeni militia, backed by Iran, said it had sunk a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea. Liberia said the attack killed two crew members.

Two sailors were killed in an attack on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship off Yemen, a Liberian U.N. delegation said Tuesday, in an incident that marked the first fatalities from a Red Sea shipping attack in over a year as Yemen’s Houthis resume operations.

Two crew members of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship have been killed in an attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia says. A Liberian representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said the Eternity C was "attacked horribly... causing the death of two seafarers".