The World - News from Jan. 6, 1986
A 36,000-ton Maltese tanker was set ablaze by an Iraqi missile attack south of Iran’s oil export terminal at Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. Shipping sources said the crew of the fully loaded vessel Koncar abandoned ship and that salvage tugs were on their way. It was the second attack in seven weeks on the Koncar, which was hit by an Iraqi Exocet missile Nov. 16 in the Persian Gulf. Iraq reported making 124 raids on Iran’s tanker traffic during 1985, nearly half of them confirmed by independent sources.
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