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The incident comes a day after a Liberia-flagged oil tanker carrying six Indian seafarers was hit by a projectile while sailing through the Persian Gulf from Al Ruwais to Dubai.

British maritime agency UKMTO reported that a tanker had caught fire in the strait -- off the coast of Khasab, Oman -- a day earlier.

Iran said exemptions for ships from India, China, Iraq and Qatar were based on specific considerations and mutual interests.

Sheikh Salman said the Strait of Hormuz was an international waterway and keeping it open was the responsibility of the international community.

The attack on MT LOUISE 1 marks the first reported successful use of limpet mines against a vessel in the strategic waterway since the US-Iran conflict began in February.

Twenty-three attacks have been recorded since the start of October, almost double the average monthly number of incidents since the start of the war.