A second ship has come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz, the British military said, just a short time after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a container ship.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) did not immediately identify who shot at the second ship.
However, suspicion immediately fell on Iran, whose paramilitary Revolutionary Guard earlier opened fire on the container ship.
In the second attack, the cargo ship said it had been fired upon and was stopped in the water. There was no reported damage to the vessel.
The attacks come days after the US seized an Iranian container ship after shooting at it this past weekend and boarded an oil tanker associated with Iran’s oil trade in the Indian Ocean.