Seafarer Killed After Gulf Oil Tanker Struck by Missile
One seafarer was killed in an explosion believed to have been caused by a missile attack on an oil products tanker in the Gulf on Thursday, the ship's manager said on Friday.The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker MT Velos Sapphire was sailing unladen towards Bahrain when it was hit…
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[Claude] Both other reports describe the same fatal missile attack on the Velos Sapphire tanker in the Gulf, with matching details.
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