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Iran's Revolutionary Guards say three oil tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said three oil tankers traveling what it called an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz were hit by explosions and severe fires early Sunday, The Hindu reported, citing AFP and an IRGC statement. "Since the early hours of this morning, three non-compliant tankers have exploded and caught fire while they were sailing in the illegal channel in the Strait of Hormuz," the Guards said, without giving the ships' names or nationalities; Iran International reported the Guards' navy said smoke had spread across the strait and blamed the fires on the tankers switching off navigation and identification systems and "accompanying the US military," warning that vessels that defy the rules "will have no fate other than this." The Hindu noted the waterway normally carries about one-fifth of global oil consumption; separately on Sunday, the British agency UKMTO reported a delayed account of a tanker fire off Khasab, Oman, that led to a crew evacuation, and of another tanker struck by an "unknown projectile" on Saturday with all crew safe, while AFP said it could not confirm whether Emirati reports of 22 people rescued from a burning vessel in the Gulf of Oman described the same incidents.
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