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Bahrain15 June 20191 min read

Gulf tanker attacks ‘a dangerous escalation’

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that twin attacks on tankers in the Sea of Oman just weeks after four ships were damaged off the UAE marked a "dangerous escalation." "The attack against the tankers in the Gulf of Oman is a worrying development and a dangerous escalation,"

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Published 15 June 2019, 8:00 · Updated 22:11

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Gulf tanker attacks ‘a dangerous escalation’

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that twin attacks on tankers in the Sea of Oman just weeks after four ships were damaged off the UAE marked a “dangerous escalation.”

“The attack against the tankers in the Gulf of Oman is a worrying development and a dangerous escalation,” the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, tweeted after Thursday’s blasts.

Gargash also condemned the Houthi militia missile attack which wounded 26 civilians at an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.

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