10/7/2025–|Last update: 15:17 (Mecca time)
Marine security sources said on Thursday that it is believed that Houthi group The Yemeni is holding 6 out of 22 individuals, the crew of a Greek ship that attacked and drowned in Red Sea Earlier in the week.
On Wednesday, the Houthis announced that a number of the ship’s crew rescued, without providing further details.
Meanwhile, naval security sources said that the rescuers recovered 3 others from the crew and a neighborhood security guard in the Red Sea today, Thursday, a day after dumping. Houthi group The Greek ship “Eritrete C”, and said they were holding some crew members who are still missing.
Thus, the total number of those who have been rescued so far rises to 10 people, including 8 Filipino members of the crew, one Indian and a Greek security guard.
Today, Thursday, people who were found more than 48 hours in the water, and 11 other people are still missing.
“This provides us with more courage to continue searching for missing persons as he requested the operator of the Greek ship, and it appears that the research plan was correct,” said Nikos Georgopoulos, an official at the Dubus Marine Risk Company – and its headquarters.
The second ship
And “Eritrete C” is the second ship that the Houthis drowned this week, and the American mission accused in Yemen The Houthis kidnapped many of the surviving ship’s crew, and called for their immediate release and unconditional.
The military spokesman for the Houthi group said in a speech broadcast on television that the group’s naval forces saved a number of the crew of the ship and provided them with medical care and transferred them to a safe place.
The ship sank yesterday, Wednesday, after the Houthis targeted and dumping the Houthis, which renewed a campaign that started in November 2023, witnessing the attack of more than 100 ships.
In the wake of the second attack that took place on Tuesday morning, the crew was forced to jump in the water, and rescuers have been searching for them since Wednesday morning.
Both ships – who were attacked this week – were raising the flag of Liberia, and they were managed by Greek companies, and all members of the Magic Cies crew were rescued before they were drowned, while the ship “Eritrei C” targeted for the first time on Monday afternoon with drivers and missile missiles fired by quick boats.
It is believed that 4 people were killed, as marine security sources said they were killed in the attacks, but in the event of verification of the matter, the four deaths will be the first death due to attacks on ships in the Red Sea since June 2024.