Rubymar cargo ship fully sinks after Houthi attack
After being attacked by Houthi forces on Feb. 18, the United States military announced on Saturday that the British-registered cargo ship had sunk in the Red Sea. | "On Mar. 2 at approximately 2:15 a.m., MV Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, UK-owned bulk carrier, sank in the Red Sea after being struck by an Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist anti-ship ballistic missile on Feb. 18," CENTCOM wrote on X (formerly Twitter) attaching the post with a photo of the ship. ● The US military also warned of an environmental risk in the Red Sea stressing that the ship was carrying out approximately 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilizer. "As the ship sinks it also presents a subsurface impact risk to other ships transiting the busy shipping lanes of the waterway."
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