The EU naval force has revealed a Saudi Arabian tanker attacked by Yemen’s Houthi militia on Tuesday was a Bahri VLCC.
The 303,000-dwt Abqaiq (built 2002) was en route from Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia to Ain Sukhna in Egypt when it was targeted.
The Houthi group, aligned with Iran, had earlier said it had attacked a tanker off the port of Hodeidah in response to a coalition air strike that killed at least 12 civilians there on Monday.
