Filipino seafarers safe after Houthi missile attack hits ship in the Red Sea

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Twenty three of the twenty five crew of Mt Sounion are Filipinos Credit: Vessel Finder

Key Points

• Currently, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has issued an alert level 3 warning for Lebanon, meaning repatriation for Filipinos is voluntary.
• Filipino crew members aboard a crude tanker that was attacked by a missile from Houthi rebels at the Port of Al-Hudaydah in Yemen, in the Red Sea, have been rescued.
• The missile targeted the Mt. Sounion, which had twenty-five crew members; twenty-three of them were Filipinos.