(Reuters) -The British maritime security company Ambrey said on Thursday it is aware of reports that a group claiming to be the “Yemeni Navy” is demanding a vessel sailing in the Bab al-Mandab Strait change course to head for Yemen.
Ambrey and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency are investigating the incident and another one in the Indian Ocean off Yemen, they said in advisory notes.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group has sought to support their ally Hamas in its war in Gaza by firing missiles at Israel and threatening shipping in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which lies next to Yemen at the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam and Jana Choukeir; editing by Christina Fincher and Jason Neely)
