A chemical tanker was hit by a drone launched from Iran in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, the US military says.
The Pentagon said the Chem Pluto vessel was struck “200 nautical miles (370km) from the coast of India” at 10:00 local time (06:00 GMT).
A fire on board the ship was extinguished. There were no casualties.
Iran has not commented. There has recently been a series of drone and rocket attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
In a separate development, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that on Saturday “two Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles were fired into international shipping lanes in the Southern Red Sea from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. No ships reported being impacted by the ballistic missiles”.
Iran gonna run out of proxys once Hamas and the Houthis are wiped off the map. Hezbollah be sitting there firing an occasional rocket so they aren’t forgotten but they seem smart enough to understand self preservation cuz it doesn’t look like the guys with the big guns are fucking around anymore.