Yemeni sources say a second missile targeted a ship while the coast guard was rescuing its crew in Bab al-Mandab, Sky News Arabia reports

Yemeni sources say a second missile targeted a ship while the coast guard was rescuing its crew in Bab al-Mandab, Sky News Arabia reports.

A second strike on a vessel during an active rescue marks an escalation in targeting method rather than a new campaign; in previous phases of Red Sea attacks, double-tap patterns of this kind have been read as intent to raise the cost of salvage and assistance, not just of transit. The transmission channel runs through war-risk insurance premia, re-routing around the Cape, and freight rates on affected lanes, with tanker and container segments responding differently depending on how exposed their scheduling is to the strait. Episodes of this kind have historically produced step-ups in premia when underwriters reprice the corridor, and those repricings have tended to persist well after individual incidents fade. The follow-ons that matter are attribution claims, any US or coalition military response, which in past cycles has been the trigger for broader risk-off in the region, and whether major carriers announce fresh suspensions of transits. As a developing incident reported through regional media, the initial account is subject to revision; the durable signal is the attack pattern, not the detail.