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‘External source’ causes oil tanker blast off Saudi Arabia

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An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah has been hit by an unidentified “external source” that caused a fire and an explosion, a shipping company said, suggesting another vessel has come under attack off the kingdom amid its years-long war in Yemen.
In a statement on Monday, shipping company Hafnia said all 22 sailors on board the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine escaped without injury. The company warned it was possible some oil leaked out from the site of the blast.
The ship’s crew put out the fire, the company said, adding that parts of the ship’s hull had been damaged.
Al Jazeera's Andreas Krieg, an assistant professor at the defence studies department at King's College London, talks to Al Jazeera.

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