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IMO and marine insurer warn against sailing in the Red Sea after new attack

Reports of recent attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea are ”extremely alarming and unacceptable,” says IMO secretary general Kitack Lim. 
Yemen's coast guard force on patrol in Bab el-Mandeb, where the Norwegian tanker MT Strinda was attacked late Monday. | Photo: Khaled Ziad/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
Yemen's coast guard force on patrol in Bab el-Mandeb, where the Norwegian tanker MT Strinda was attacked late Monday. | Photo: Khaled Ziad/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
by DANIEL LOGAN BERG-MUNCH

Houthi rebels in Yemen with links to Iran have threatened that all commercial ships in the Red Sea are potential targets, prompting the UN’s maritime organization IMO to call for action.

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