US military announces death of two Navy SEALs who went missing In the Red Sea

The search for two US Navy Seals who went missing after boarding a boat thought to be carrying advanced Iranian weapons in the Arabian Sea, near the coast of Somalia, has been called off.

The boat boarded by the Seals was described earlier this week as "conducting illegal transport of advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply Houthi forces in Yemen."

Centcom said in a statement that the status of the missing Navy Seals had been "changed to deceased".

The operation was "the first seizure of lethal, Iranian-supplied advanced conventional weapons (ACW) to the Houthis since the beginning of Houthi attacks against merchant ships in November 2023," the Tuesday statement said.

CENTCOM Status Update on Missing U.S. Navy Seals

We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased. The search and rescue operation for the two Navy SEALs reported… pic.twitter.com/OAMbn1mwK8
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) January 21, 2024