Twelve sailors from Russia were on one of the oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman. All of them have been taken ashore. Nobody was hurt, the press-service of the Russian Sailors’ Union has told TASS.
"Twelve people [Russians] were taken ashore. Nobody was hurt. They are from southern regions - Novorossiysk, Krasnodar, Tuapse," the union’s spokeswoman said without specifying the name of the tanker the sailors were from.
Earlier, the Iranian television channel Press-TV reported attacks against two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Explosions were heard in the area. Pakistan’s and Oman’s port services received distress signals from the crews.
According to Arab media the ships had been attacked with torpedoes. Iranian emergency services have rescued 44 sailors from the burning ships. One belongs to the Japanese shipping company Kunihana Sangyo, and the other to Norway’s Frontline.
