None injured as explosions hit Iranian tanker

Two separate explosions hit an Iranian oil tanker on Friday, which set the ship on fire, Iran’s ISNA news agency has reported. The vessel is owned by Iran’s stateowned National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC), who identified the tanker as the Sabiti. No casualties were reported in the incident.

The company also denied media reports citing it as saying missiles hit the oil tanker. The Russian foreign ministry also said it was too early to say who is to blame for explosion. The explosion caused heavy damage to two storerooms aboard the ship and oil was spilling in the Red Sea, state television said.

Iranian media agency IRNA later reported that “the leak of oil has stopped and the situation is under control”. Tehran said on that Sabiti was still in the Red Sea, “but its route will change,” according to an official from the National Iranian Tanker Company.