Yemen’s Houthi rebels hijack towboat with apparent Saudi link

Boat pulling oil rig said to be South Korean, but tracking site says home port is Jeddah

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have hijacked a boat towing a South Korean drilling rig, a Riyadh-led coalition said on Monday, with a global shipping tracker calling it a Saudi-flagged vessel.

Sunday’s incident in the Red Sea follows a lull in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia as one Riyadh official said the kingdom had established an “open channel” with the Iran-backed rebels.

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