Attack on vessel in Strait of Hormuz
Two separate vessels were struck in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend of September 12-13 amid the ongoing US-Iran war. The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) reported late Saturday that an unidentified vessel had been hit by an unknown projectile while transiting the strait, sparking a fire and prompting evacuation of crew members; UKMTO did not identify the vessel's flag or say who fired the projectile. Separately, Iranian state media reported that an Iranian commercial vessel was struck near Qeshm Island early Sunday, killing one person and injuring four others; Iran's IRNA news agency quoted the Qeshm governor blaming a 'terrorist enemy,' though the US did not immediately comment. The strikes came a day before Iran's foreign minister was set to meet Gulf Arab diplomats in Oman to discuss managing shipping traffic through the strait, a meeting Bahrain said it would skip; traffic through the waterway, which once carried about 20 million barrels of oil daily, remained roughly 90% below pre-conflict levels amid the US naval blockade.
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