{"id":58893,"date":"2026-05-02T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-off-shabwa-coast-heads-towards-somali-waters\/02\/05\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:20:14","slug":"yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-off-shabwa-coast-heads-towards-somali-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-off-shabwa-coast-heads-towards-somali-waters\/02\/05\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen says oil tanker hijacked off Shabwa coast, heads towards Somali waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yemen&#8217;s coast guard stated that the tanker\u2019s location had been identified and efforts were underway to track it, take necessary measures to recover it, and ensure the safety of its crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yemen\u2019s coast guard said on Saturday that the M\/T EUREKA oil tanker had been hijacked off the coast of Shabwa province by unidentified armed men who boarded the vessel, seized control, and steered it towards the Gulf of Aden in the direction of Somali waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The coast guard added that the tanker\u2019s location had been identified and efforts were underway to track it, take necessary measures to recover it, and ensure the safety of its crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-153907928.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&rsquo;s coast guard stated that the tanker&rsquo;s location had been identified and efforts were underway to track it, take necessary measures to<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/yemen-says-oil-tanker-hijacked-off-shabwa-coast-heads-towards-somali-waters\/02\/05\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/jerusalem_post_articles_818\/166eb65b9663d765fa4c4668f68d6852","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}