Crew of 2 hit oil tankers evacuated to Iranian port

TEHRAN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The 44 crew members of the two oil tankers that were hit in the Sea of Oman on Thursday morning were transferred to the Iranian port city of Jask, official IRNA news agency reported.

The rescuers of Iran's coastal province of Hormozgan found the crews and took them to Jask, a city of Hormozgan, IRNA quoted a source as saying.

The incident comes amid the rising tension between the United States and Iran. Washington withdrew from the Iranian international nuclear deal in mid-2018 and re-imposed full sanctions on Iran's oil exports.

Last month, four commercial vessels suffererd similar sabotage off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.