Islamabad:
An oil liquefied oil oil (LPG) that transported 27 crew members, including 24 Pakistani, was beaten by an Israeli drone while he was docked in a Yemeni port earlier this month, the Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi revealed on Saturday. All Pakistani sailors aboard the ship remained unharmed, he added.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that the ship has already left Ras al-Essa with all the crew, including all Pakistani citizens, “safe and unharmed.” However, I would not say what a fire aboard the oil GLP.
The Red Sea has become a geopolitical voltage access point due to the targeting of the huti militia of commercial ships in retaliation for the Israel War in Gaza. The sea is in wedge between Africa and the Middle East and connects the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea.
According to a news agency, the unmanned aircraft strike lit a fire aboard the ship traveling from Iran to Yemen. In addition, he informed diplomatic sources that the crew was temporarily evacuated before returning to the ship to extinguish the fire.
The strike is the last in more than a year of attacks and hired between Houthis and Israel, part of a spill of the war in Gaza.
In a position on social networks, Interior Minister, Naqvi, wrote that the boat that transported 27 crew members, including 24 Pakistani led by Captain Mukhtar Akbar, two Sri Lankans, and a Nepali, was beaten by an Israeli drone on September 17 while attached to Ras al-Aasa Port, an area under the houthi control.
“A LPG tank exploded, but the crew managed to contain the fire,” he wrote in ‘X’, previously Twitter. Shortly after, the Houthi ships intercepted the oil tanker, and the crew was held hostage aboard the ship.
Naqvi praised the “tireless efforts” of the Secretary of Interior Khurram Agha, the ambassador navigated Bokhari and his team in Oman, as well as the officials in Saudi Arabia and the security agencies of Pakistan, who worked “day and night under extraordinary conditions” to ensure the release of the crew.
“Alhamdulillah, the oil tanker and its crew have been released by the hutis and are out of the Yemeni waters,” Naqvi said in his position.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided a somewhat vague statement, saying that on September 17, a LPG oil tanker caught fire on the Yemen coast. The ship had a multinational crew, including 24 Pakistani nationals, he added.
“Upon receiving the news about the incident, Pakistan’s embassies in question established contacts with Yemen authorities to guarantee the well -being of the crew. Efforts were made to put the oil tanker in motion again,” he added.
The diplomatic missions also maintained contact with the family members of the Pakistani crew and kept them updated on the last situation.
The incident has drawn attention to the growing risks facing commercial shipment in conflict areas and highlighted the Pakistan’s diplomatic and security coordination to ensure the safety of its citizens abroad.
