1st LD Writethru: Yemen's Houthi group claims strikes on British warship, commercial vessels

ADEN, Yemen, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The Houthi group in Yemen announced on Sunday that it had carried out strikes targeting a British naval destroyer and two commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.

In a televised statement broadcast on the group's Al-Masirah channel, Yahya Sarea, the military spokesman for the Houthis, said that their forces had launched an operation against the British warship HMS Diam