The centre placed the ship 1.6 nautical miles off the Musandam coast and said the crew received medical care, without detailing their condition. The number evacuated and the reported circumstances remain attributed to Omani authorities.
The available evidence does not identify the attacker or the method used. This evacuation should not be conflated with a separate report of explosives attached to another tanker’s hull near Khasab; it also does not confirm Iranian claims about mines in the strait.