TUNIS, October 20. /TASS/. A tanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil struck a sea mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian army) said.

"A violator supertanker struck a sea mine in the south of the Strait of Hormuz and caught fire," it said, as cited by the Tasnim news agency.

According to the IRGC, the vessel was sailing with its radar and navigation system off and trying to leave the waterway along an unauthorized route, having ignored warnings. The name of the vessel was not disclosed.