‘There’s no safe place here’: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port

Dozens of other vessels leave area after drone strike causes fire onboard tanker owned by Kuwait’s state oil company How could US forcibly reopen strait of Hormuz and what are the risks? When Iran attacked a fully loaded crude oil tanker anchored at Dubai port on Monday night, damaging the vessel’s hull, hundreds of seafarers stranded on tankers anchored nearby were close enough to watch as the vessel burned. Thousands more were able to listen to radio messages sent from the tanker to port authorities, as the latest strike on a merchant vessel during the US-Israel war on Iran reignited fears for the civilian maritime workers trapped in a war zone. The Guardian spoke to a crew member on one of the oil tankers anchored a few miles from the blaze. “Our officers on the bridge saw the explosion happen at around midnight,” the seafarer said. “When I came on to the bridge hours later, the fire was still ongoing. It’s terrible even to imagine what that crew must have gone through.” Dubai authorities confirmed that the drone attack on the Al Salmi tanker, which is owned by Kuwait’s state oil company, caused a fire onboard that was extinguished early on Tuesday, hours after t