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THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday night confirmed that five of the 21 Filipino seafarers in a second ship attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea have been rescued.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The second cargo vessel, the Eternity C, sank in the Red Sea during the attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DFA Undersecretary Eduardo Jose De Vega said the Liberia-flagged vessel has already sunk, and rescue operations are ongoing for the remaining crew members.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DFA, meanwhile, has received reports of at least two fatalities but de Vega did not confirm their nationality.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Eternity C ship was carrying 22 crew members\u201421 Filipinos and one Russian\u2014when it was allegedly struck by drones and rocket-propelled grenades launched by Iran-backed Houthi militants off the coast of Yemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hours before the attack, the Houthi rebels <\/strong>assaulted the first ship, the MV Magic Seas, which had a total of 17 Filipino seafarers and two other foreigners: a Vietnamese chief engineer and a Romanian Master. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ship was attacked around 51 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah, Yemen on July 6. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n De Vega said the Filipino crew of the other vessel were all rescued and are now on their way to Jeddah<\/strong>, Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday night confirmed that five of the 21 Filipino seafarers in a second ship attacked by Houthi militants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}