{"id":3649,"date":"2026-05-02T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:01:00","slug":"armed-seizure-of-a-tanker-off-yemen-first-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Armed seizure of a tanker off Yemen &#8211; First information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"548\">The Yemen<\/strong> coast guard<\/a> announced that a <strong data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"441\">tanker<\/strong> has fallen into the hands of unidentified gunmen off the province of <strong data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"511\">Shabua<\/strong>, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"739\">It was reported that the <strong data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"586\">M\/T Eureka<\/strong> was boarded by drastis, who took control and steered it towards the <strong data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"697\">Bay of Aden<\/strong>, heading for the waters of <strong data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"738\">Somalia<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"741\" data-end=\"941\">Yemeni authorities said the ship&#8217;s position has been located. Meanwhile, operations are underway to <strong data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"874\">locate<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"892\">recover<\/strong> the vessel and <strong data-start=\"913\" data-end=\"940\">safety of the crew<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"943\" data-end=\"1098\">Earlier, the <strong data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1023\">United Kingdom Maritime Transport Operations Office (UKMTO)<\/strong> had recorded <strong data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1064\">suspicious activity<\/strong> near the port of <strong data-start=\"1086\" data-end=\"1097\">Mukala<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"> UKMTO WARNING 049-26<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the full warning\u2935\ufe0fhttps:\/\/t.co\/cd8BXKcAeY#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com\/8KzRw1Gipj <\/p>\n<p> &#8211; UKMTO Operations Centre (@UK_MTO) May 2, 2026 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1100\" data-end=\"1289\">According to the same source, a <strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1140\">tanker<\/strong> reported an approach by a small vessel escorted by a <strong data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1210\">alien vessel<\/strong>, approximately 84 nautical miles southwest of Mukalla, off the southern coast of Yemen. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1291\" data-end=\"1398\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It remains unknown at this time whether the incident recorded by <strong data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1352\">UKMTO<\/strong> is linked to the seizure of the <strong data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1397\">M\/T Eureka<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Yemen&#8217;s coast guard said a tanker has fallen into the hands of unidentified gunmen off the coast of Sabua province, according to &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}