Smoke rises from tanker MT El Gaia after projectile strike near Strait of Hormuz

MT El Gaia, a Panama-flagged oil tanker was struck by a projectile off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz while operating in “dark mode” with its Automatic Identification System turned off. Rephrased sentence. The tanker had 25 crew members on board, including 14 Indian nationals and 11 Pakistani nationals.