ALBAWABA - After being attacked by Houthi forces on Feb. 18, the United States military announced on Saturday that the British-registered cargo ship had sunk in the Red Sea.
"On Mar. 2 at approximately 2:15 a.m., MV Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, UK-owned bulk carrier, sank in the Red Sea after being struck by an Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist anti-ship ballistic missile on Feb. 18," CENTCOM wrote on X (formerly Twitter) attaching the post with a photo of the ship.
The US military also warned of an environmental risk in the Red Sea stressing that the ship was carrying out approximately 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilizer. "As the ship sinks it also presents a subsurface impact risk to other ships transiting the busy shipping lanes of the waterway."
The government in the UK said that all the cargo ship crew (24 people) were rescued following the Houhtihi attack.
It's worth noting that the Rubymar ship was in the Gulf of Aden near the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Meanwhile, the government in Yemen revealed earlier that Rubymar, the cargo ship, was slowly sinking into the Red Sea days before it fully sank.
Yemeni Minister of Water and Environment Tawfiq Al-Sharjabi said days ago that powerful winds and waves had swept the Rubymar. He also emphasized the worrying state of affairs aboard, as water was quickly filling the engine room and tilting the ship.
Since the start of the Israeli aggressive war in Gaza, Houthis announced targeting any vessel heading to Israel through the Red Sea. In response, the US formed a coalition to combat the Houthi attacks against ships.
At least 30,320 people have been killed and 71,533 wounded in Israeli airstrikes and attacks on Gaza since Oct. 7.
