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Rare Speedboat Attack in Hormuz Ignites Tanker’s Engine Room

Bloomberg Markets30 October 2026, 15:13 UTCIran

Explosives attached to the outside of a tanker by fighters in a speedboat damaged the larger vessel’s engine in the Strait of Hormuz, the first attack of its sort in the current conflict and a tactic Iran has used before against commercial shipping.

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