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President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is expected to bring up in his working visit to Germany how the European country could help ensure the welfare of Filipino seafarers, following the fatal attack of Houthi rebel group on a merchant ship, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday.
The recent attack on the cargo ship Rubymar by the Iran-backed Houthis caused the crew to drop anchor, which damaged undersea internet cables, the US has said. Could the vital infrastructure now become a regular target?
Yemen's Houthi militants fired two missiles at a Singapore-owned merchant vessel in the Red Sea on 11 March, marking the second attack on a Singapore-owned ship in less than a week.
A Philippine diplomat said on Tuesday that negotiations continue for the release of 17 Filipino sailors taken hostage by the Yemen's Houthi rebels last year, and the rebels insist "an end to the war in Gaza" as a precondition for their release.
Eleven Filipino seafarers arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday nearly a week after they survived a Houthi missile attack off Yemen. The migrant workers' ministry said in a statement the 11 survivors received government help on arriving in Manila. Mark Anthony Dagohoy, a crew member on True Confidence, said it was difficult to recall what they went through, but he was thankful for the military personnel who rescued them.