Greek-flagged oil tanker on fire and appears to be adrift in Red Sea

The Sounion has 150,000 tons of crude oil aboard and is a “navigational and environmental hazard,” the EU's Aspides naval mission said on Thursday.

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00:00Several fires broke out on a Greek-flagged oil tanker on Friday following an attack by

00:06Yemen's Houthi rebels a day earlier.

00:09UK maritime trade operations reported at least three fires on board the Sunnian vessel, which

00:15has now been anchored after it was adrift in the Red Sea.

00:19It comes amid a months-long campaign by the Houthis targeting ships over the Israel-Hamas

00:25war, disrupting a major trade route through which just under a trillion euros of cargo

00:30typically passes each year.