The World - News from March 31, 1986
An Iranian helicopter attacked and set fire to a Panamanian-registered oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, shipping sources in the region reported. The 103,178-ton Stelios, with no oil aboard, was struck about 70 miles east of Qatar, but the damage was not serious, the sources said. Within the last two days, Iranian copters also attacked a Norwegian tanker, the Berge King, and Iraqi warplanes hit the Liberian tanker Hawaii. The attacks are the latest in the so-called tanker war, an offshoot of the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq.
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