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2023-11-28 06:59:49 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7880CDDAF3D5A78EA0D7BAFCCBD8B7CA06DB665A0B8CB5E14ADC446D8DF03966
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Fact check/ Fake news: This incidents occured in June 2019 in the Gulf of Oman. The two tankers which had been attacked were operated by a norwayan and the other one by a japanese shipping company. No such incidents occured recently! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/oil-tankers-blasts-reports-gulf-of-oman-us-navy https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/middleeast/sea-of-oman-tanker-intl/index.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/6/13/explosions-reported-on-two-tankers-in-gulf-of-oman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident
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