A tanker owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC was attacked while transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, Emirati state-run WAM news agency says.
The attack happened yesterday evening, and there were no injuries, the agency reports. This is the third such attack on vessels operated by ADNOC in the critical waterway in the last week.
The UAE has previously accused Iran of the attacks but does not immediately comment on the latest incident.
Separately, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center says that a bulk carrier was struck by an unknown projectile that hit the hull.
Shipping has been disrupted and the strait has been virtually closed since the Iran war started on February 28. Before the war, which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran, about one-fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas passed through the waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
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