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Oil Tanker Exploded After Colliding with Mines in Hormuz, Iran's Fars Reports

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An oil tanker exploded and caught fire after colliding with mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's IRGC said, according to Fars, without saying when the incident occurred.

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An oil tanker is said to have colliding with a mine.

·Vienna, Austria
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The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRC) reported that the supertanker exploded on a mine and set fire to an attempt to cross the prohibited IRGC southern route in the Strait of Ormuz, handed over to Fars.

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(Cairo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy [declared] that a supertanker attempting to pass through the southern control zone of the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a mine and...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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A tanker sailing in the Strait of Hormuz reportedly hit mines, causing it to explode. The news was reported by the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency, citing sources from the Revolutionary Guards. As they emphasize, after the impact, the ship was engulfed in flames. So far, no further information has been released about the condition of the crew. Read more at iefimerida.gr A tanker sailing in the Strait of Hormuz reportedly hit mines, causin…

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The IRGC Navy Command announced that the supertanker "Algaya" exploded south of the Strait of Hormuz after hitting naval mines.

·Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Supertanker El Gaia tried to pass through the exclusion zone in the southern part of the Ormuz Strait and exploded in mines, reported by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRC). The explosion damaged the ship and then gave the RIA News on board. IRGC stated that attempts to extinguish fire on the tanker had failed. As the newspaper WZGLAD wrote, the Iranian Gulf Control Authority had released a list of 77 ships that were at risk of c…

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