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“On Sunday afternoon, the Konarak light support ship was in distress during a multinational exercise in the waters of Jasko and Chabahar,” the statement said on a military website.
“19 people died in this disaster [žmonių]and 15 were injured, “he added. The report indicates that the ship was towed ashore.
As reported on Monday, state television struck a rocket in Konarak during military exercises in the waters of Bandar Jasco, on the southern coast of Iran.
“The ship was hit because it moved the training target to its destination and was not far enough from the target,” the report added.
The Friendly Fire incident occurred on Sunday near the port of Jassk, some 1,270 km southeast of Tehran in the Gulf of Oman, state television reported.
An English Twitter message from Tasnim news agency says a rocket launched from another Iranian warship struck Konarak.
Konarak was hit by a “forest fire” when a Moudge-class frigate, Jamaran, accidentally hit a rocket aboard during a combat firing exercise in the Jasco region of the Persian Gulf, according to a Tasnim report.
According to the Iranian media, Konarak was rebuilt and armed with anti-aircraft missiles in 2018. Built in the Netherlands and purchased prior to the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, the 477-ton 477-ton Hendijan class has been in operation since 1988. It generally employs a crew of 20 sailors. It is still unclear how many people were on board at the time of the incident.
The wounded were hospitalized in the Sistan and Baluchistan provinces, said Mohammad Mehran Aminifard, head of the medical university in that province.
Two sailors are being treated in the intensive care unit, he told ISNA, a semi-state news agency.
The Commander of the Iranian Armed Forces and the Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed their condolences to the families of the injured sailors.
Iran regularly exercises in the region, which is near the strategically important Hormous Strait, a narrow waterway in the Persian Gulf that carries one fifth of the world’s oil. Representatives of the US Navy. USA Those monitoring the region did not comment immediately after the incident.
Iranian media rarely report accidents during training. The latest incident came amid huge tensions between Washington and Tehran over a 2018 decision by United States President Donald Trump to unilaterally withdraw from the landmark treaty on Iran’s nuclear program and return painful sanctions to the Shiite republic.
Iranian and American forces have been involved in several strategically important Gulf waters incidents in recent years.
The last confrontation at sea took place on April 15, when the United States said that small Iranian ships were “disrupting” American warships.
After the incident, Trump wrote on Twitter ordering his US military to “fire and destroy each and every Iranian armed ship if they pursue our ships at sea.”
At the time, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani questioned that Washington “should not make plans against the Iranian state every day,” adding that the Shiite republic “has protected these waters for thousands of years.”
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