The Saudi-led Arab coalition announced Wednesday that it had foiled a terrorist attack against an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Yemen, reported the Saudi Press Agency.

Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the incident took place some 90 nautical miles southeast of Yemen’s Nishtun port on Tuesday, while the tanker was sailing towards the Gulf of Aden.

Four explosives-laden vessels then approached the tanker in an attempt attack it.

He explained that the vessels were being controlled remotely.

Malki condemned the attack, saying it posed a threat to global energy and trade and marine routes. He sounded the alarm on the terrorist threats in straits stretching from the southern Red Sea, through Bab al-Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and Hormuz Strait.

He stressed that the joint coalition command will continue to implement the necessary measures to neutralize and destroy any marine threat in its area of operations, calling on international partners to unite efforts to confront them.