{"id":769055,"date":"2026-09-13T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769055\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:54:11","slug":"vessel-struck-by-unidentified-munition-in-strait-of-hormuz-uk-maritime-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769055\/","title":{"rendered":"Vessel struck by unidentified munition in Strait of Hormuz: UK maritime authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esra Tekin<\/p>\n<p>13 September 2026\u2022Update: 13 September 2026<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said Sunday that a vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz had been struck by an unidentified munition.<\/p>\n<p>An online statement said no information was available on the condition of the crew, the extent of the damage, or the vessel\u2019s potential effect on the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>The maritime authority said an investigation is underway and advised vessels to proceed with caution and report suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic through the critical Strait of Hormuz remains well below levels before the start of the US-Iran war this February amid continued security risks and attacks on commercial vessels going through regional waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esra Tekin 13 September 2026\u2022Update: 13 September 2026 The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said Sunday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,180755,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}