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Shipping bodies call for right to safe passage in Red Sea after deadly attack

Seafarers must not become collateral victims in the conflict in the waters around Yemen, says the IMO secretary general and major shipping associations.
True Confidence on fire after a Houthi attack cost the lives of three seafarers. | Photo: Dvids/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
True Confidence on fire after a Houthi attack cost the lives of three seafarers. | Photo: Dvids/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by JENS THOMSEN

Following the killing of at least three seafarers on the cargo ship True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen, IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez is calling for better international protection for merchant ships and their crews against attacks by the Yemeni Houthi militia.

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