Iran tanker blast triggers massive oil leak in Red SeaBy ASSOCIATED PRESShome/News/World/Iran tanker blast triggers massive oil leak in Red SeaTehran, Iran: An explosion damaged an Iranian oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian media reported. State television said the explosion damaged two storerooms aboard the unnamed oil tanker and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea. All reports said the reported explosion happened off the coast of Jiddah on the Red Sea. The reported explosion comes after the US has alleged that in past months Iran attacked oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, something denied by Tehran. The latest assault saw Saudi Arabia’s vital oil industry come under a drone-and-cruise-missile attack, halving the kingdom’s output.

Source: Manila Times October 11, 2019 19:50 UTC