Tehran, Oct 31:
A Panama-flagged tanker carrying 27 Indian seafarers was reportedly targeted with limpet mines in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire on the vessel. All Indian seafarers aboard the crude oil tanker – MT Louise 1 – were “completely safe with no injuries”, Union shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said in a post on X.
The incident took place 25 nautical miles (46 km) northeast of Oman’s Khasab, British navy agency United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.
However, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Friday that four oil tankers had caught fire and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while attempting to use what it said were unauthorised routes, news agency Reuters reported. The IRGC said that one of the tankers, carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil, had hit a naval mine.