The World : Persian Gulf Tanker Sinks

A tanker carrying kerosene exploded and sank in the Persian Gulf three days after it was struck by an Iraqi missile that killed one crewman and injured three others, shipping sources reported in Bahrain. The tanker, the 57,000-ton Liberian-registered Neptunia, was the first ship to sink in the gulf since Iraq initiated the so-called tanker war last March in an attempt to cut off the oil revenues of Iran, its foe in their four-year-old war. Since then, planes of the two nations have damaged more than 70 ships.