{"id":303779,"date":"2026-09-23T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/303779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:56:10","slug":"cargo-vessel-hit-by-unknown-projectile-in-strait-of-hormuz-two-casualties-reported-ukmto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/303779\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo vessel hit by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz, two casualties reported: UKMTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel caught fire and was left adrift after the incident, with all crew members evacuated, UK maritime agency UKMTO said <\/p>\n<p class=\"forfirstp\">A cargo vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an &#8220;unknown projectile&#8221; on Wednesday, triggering a fire and leaving two people injured, according to a British maritime agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Company Security Officer of a cargo vessel reports being struck by an unknown projectile. The vessel is on fire and adrift,&#8221; the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All crew have been evacuated with 2 casualties reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the incident, while no environmental impact has been reported so far, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>UKMTO advised vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz to exercise caution and report any suspicious activity to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>With inputs from agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vessel caught fire and was left adrift after the incident, with all crew members evacuated, UK maritime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[5096,1273,359,102,143,150,101,2483,54086,81594,480],"class_list":["post-303779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-cargo-vessel","tag-casualties","tag-gulf","tag-hormuz","tag-maritime-security","tag-shipping","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-ukmto","tag-unknown-projectile","tag-vessel-fire","tag-west-asia-conflict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117320940354736409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}