CAIRO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said on Saturday it had intercepted a fishing trawler smuggling “more than 50 tonnes of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets” in the Gulf of Oman along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen on Dec. 1.
“Navy personnel operating from expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) discovered the illicit cargo during a flag verification boarding, marking U.S. 5th Fleet’s second major illegal weapons seizure within a month,” it added in a statement.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Marines prepare to land an MV-22B Osprey aboard the USS Lewis B. Puller in the Persian Gulf, May 11, 2019. Picture taken on May 11, 2019.
(Reporting by Enas Alashray and Yomna Ehab; Editing by Toby Chopra)
