🔶 A “projectile” hits an oil tanker off the coast of Oman

The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre said on Friday, 26 Tir (17 July), that amid reciprocal attacks by Iran and the United States over control of the Strait of Hormuz, an oil tanker near the coasts of Oman had been targeted by an unidentified projectile.

The British body said the projectile hit during the night caused minor damage to the left side of the tanker’s hull, but all ship crew are safe.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations Agency did not publish further details about the type of projectile or the probable perpetrator of the attack.