A chemical tanker operating in the Indian Ocean has been attacked by a drone launched from Iran, according to the US military, expanding the threat faced by international merchant shipping.
The Pentagon said in a statement that the Chem Pluto was hit about 200 nautical miles from the coast of India on Saturday by a “one-way attack drone fired from Iran”. It was the seventh assault by Iranian forces on commercial shipping since 2021, the statement said.
“There were no casualties and a fire on board the tanker has been extinguished,” said a defence department spokesperson.
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