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The European Union’s Naval Force “Aspides” rescued on Thursday the 23 Filipino and two Russian crew members of the oil tanker Sounion that was attacked in the Red Sea and took them to the East African nation of Djibouti.
An official of the naval force saids on Thursday that they responded to a request from the shipping company and the captain of the Sounion and dispatched units to rescue the crew.
The Aspides official said that during the rescue in the morning of Aug. 22, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) emerged and posed a threat to the Sounion and its crew, but it was successfully neutralized.
The USV was believed to have been deployed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, but the group has yet to own responsibility for the attack.
Earlier on Thursday, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said the Filipinos on the Sounion were anxious about their situation as other Filipinos in Lebanon asked to be rescued from intensifying hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
