Two crew members of a Japanese-owned oil tanker died in a suspected piracy incident off the coast of Oman, the British office of the Israeli-owned company that manages the vessel said Friday.
London-based Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group
“With profound sadness, we understand the incident onboard the M/T Mercer Street on 29 July, 2021 has resulted in the deaths of two crew members onboard: a Romanian national and a UK national,” Zodiac Maritime said.
Britain’s military said earlier on Friday it was investigating reports that an oil tanker managed by the Israeli-owned Zodiac Maritime company has been attacked in the Arabian Sea.
Zodiac Maritime said that the ship was the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street and was Japanese owned, and that the attack represented “piracy.”
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