Officials of the Yemeni government announced that the number of people killed in the Houthi missile attack on a ship in the Bab al-Mandab Strait increased to four.

The number of victims had previously been reported as three.

In a statement, Yemen’s Ministry of Transport said three Pakistani nationals and one Indonesian national died in the attack.

Based on the statement, the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles at this Yemeni commercial ship.

This is the first time since the start of the latest round of hostilities that attacks by this proxy group carrying out the Islamic Republic of Iran’s missile attacks on ships in Yemeni waters have resulted in human casualties.