Guards on famous yacht opened fire on Yemen's Coast Guard after mistaking them for pirates
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Private guards on a yacht mistook Yemen's Coast Guard for pirates and opened fire on them. The guards were on a famous yacht that was once owned by Richard Burton.
Details of what happened to the Kalizma remained unclear hours after the incident, which the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations initially reported as an attack with gunfire off Nishtun, in Yemen’s far east near the border with Oman.
But by Friday afternoon, the British military operation providing support to ships across the Mideast described the attack in the Gulf of Aden as being "confirmed by authorities as government agency activity," without elaborating.
Ambrey, a maritime intelligence company, said in a brief that a Yemeni Coast Guard contingent had approached a Cook Islands-flagged yacht which hadn't responded to radio calls.