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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
UK rings alarm as vessel in Persian Gulf goes up in flames
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA vessel in the Persian Gulf has caught fire, prompting a warning from British naval officials to “exercise extreme caution.”
The United Kingdom’s Maritime Trade Operations says the fire struck a vessel northwest of Sharjah, an Emirati sheikhdom. It offered no other information about the vessel.
Emirati officials said they were working to put out the blaze on the vessel, some 21 miles (34 kilometers) off the coast of Sharjah.
Officials with the US military said they knew of the fire, but had no further information.
The blaze comes amid heightened tensions in the region after the US killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad and Iran fired ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops.
— AP
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