From AP:
Crew members on the tanker ship heard a loud bang. Dark smoke rose from the front of the vessel, which was loaded with methanol and sailing in the Persian Gulf.
The JV Innovation, a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker hit in May, was one of 67 commercial ships that have been attacked or boarded in the Middle East since the Iran war started, according to data from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. At least 17 seafarers have been killed and dozens more injured in the regional maritime attacks. The attacks on commercial ships have been among the most devastating during wartime in a generation. Most of the attacks have originated from Iran, but the U.S. has launched attacks on and boarded more than a dozen ships that violated the Trump administration’s naval blockade.