June 17 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Wednesday that it had received a report of an incident 105 nautical miles northeast of Yemen's Aden, adding that the crew were safe.

"A vessel has been approached to within 4 meters and fired upon by 2 skiffs with an unknown number of armed persons on board. The vessel has deployed security team and returned fire. The suspect vessels have now disengaged", UKMTO said.