Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Friday that two supertankers struck naval mines in the southern Strait of Hormuz, triggering explosions and fires that disabled their engines and forced their crews to abandon the vessels.
In a statement carried by state news agency IRNA, the IRGC Navy said the two tankers attempted to navigate through an “unauthorized route” in the southern part of the strategic waterway.
The IRGC said explosions and intense fires in the vessels’ engine rooms left both tankers disabled and stranded.
According to the statement, the vessels were carrying a combined cargo of more than 4.5 million barrels of crude oil.
The tankers were subsequently abandoned by their crews near the southern coast of the Strait of Hormuz, it added.
Source of information: Global News Agencies including REUTERS / TASS / AFP / ANADOLU / INT.RU / Al Jazeera / CNN
Two supertankers struck sea mines while trying to illegally pass through the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian army) said.
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