Six people were killed and 10 wounded in a Houthi strike on a civilian vessel in the Red Sea, marking the group’s first lethal strike on shipping since the beginning of the war with Iran.

The Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia last month and have been routinely harassing shipping since. On Tuesday, the internationally recognized government of Yemen said that the Houthis targeted the commercial vessel Tihama, which was hit with three ballistic missiles while traversing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Four crew members were killed, three Pakistanis and one Indonesian, and two rescuers were killed in a follow-up strike while evacuating the crew, according to the Yemeni Coast Guard.

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