DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Crew members aboard a Liberian-flagged ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea abandoned the vessel Sunday night as it took on water, marking the first serious assault in the vital corridor for trade after a monthslong campaign by Yemen ‘s Houthi rebels there.

A ship came under attack in the Red Sea off the southwest coast of Yemen on Sunday, a British maritime agency and a security firm said, in an assault that