Ship evacuated after first civilian fatalities in Houthis’ Red Sea attacks


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Open this photo in gallery: The Barbados-flagged bulk carrier following a attack by Yemen's Huthi rebels, in Gulf of Aden, in this handout photograph taken on March 6 and released by the Indian Navy.-/Getty Images India’s navy evacuated all 20 crew from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea on Thursday, after a Houthi attack killed three seafarers in the first civilian fatalities from the Yemeni group’s campaign against the key shipping route. The Iran-aligned militants fired a missile at the Barbados-flagged, Greek-operated True Confidence on Wednesday about 50 nautical miles off the port of Aden, setting it ablaze. In...