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A Palau-flagged oil tanker was deed disconnected Oman’s Musandam peninsula connected Sunday (March 1, 2026) injuring 4 people, the country’s maritime information centre said, following drone strikes connected the Gulf country’s commercialized larboard of Duqm.
The incidents people the archetypal time targets successful oregon adjacent Oman person been deed pursuing a wave of retaliatory strikes by Tehran on Gulf states aft associated U.S.-Israeli attacks connected Iran that person plunged the portion into a caller war.
The 20-person unit of the Skylight tanker was evacuated aft the attack, which occurred astir 5 nautical miles northbound of Musandam’s Khasab Port, the Oman Maritime Security Centre said successful a station connected X. The centre did not specify what deed the tanker. Initial accusation indicated injuries of varying severity to 4 of the crew, composed of 15 Indian and 5 Iranian citizens, it added.
يُعلن مركز الأمن البحري عن تعرض ناقلة النفط (SKYLIGHT) وتحمل علم جمهورية (بالاو) للاستهداف، على بعد (٥) أميال بحرية شمال ميناء خصب بمحافظة مسندم، وتم إخلاء جميع طاقم الناقلة المكون من (۲۰) شخصا، بينهم (١٥) شخصا يحملون الجنسية الهندية، و(٥) أشخاص من الجنسية الإيرانية.
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Oman’s Musandam peninsula shares power of the Strait of Hormuz with Iran, a captious strategical chokepoint done which astir a 5th of planetary lipid depletion flows.
Earlier connected Sunday (March 1, 2026), Oman’s authorities quality bureau reported that the Duqm commercial larboard was deed by 2 drones, injuring 1 expatriate worker.
Debris from another drone fell successful an country adjacent fuel tanks astatine Duqm, but determination were nary casualties oregon worldly losses recorded from that incident, the bureau added.
