On the 23rd local time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy of Iran announced that earlier in the day, two supertankers trying to illegally cross the southern Strait of Hormuz hit by lightning. The explosion and fire paralyzed its cabin and left it anchored. The two tankers carried more than 4.5 million barrels of crude oil. After being hit by lightning, they were abandoned in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, and the crew abandoned the ship to escape.

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