Iranian navy fires missiles at its own ship during exercises, killing 19

Tehran: Iranian navy fired missiles at its own ship during exercises, killing 19 Navy personnel on board.

According to the Arab News Agency, the Iranian military confirmed the incident, saying that the incident took place on Sunday when a missile was fired at a target in the Gulf of Oman during military exercises, but it did not reach the nearby Iranian support ship. As a result, 19 people on board were killed and 15 were injured.

According to Arab media, the incident took place near the port of Jask, southeast of Tehran, on the Gulf of Oman, where naval exercises were taking place in the waters of Jask and Chah-e-Bihar on Sunday, during which a support ship was hit.

Iranian state media have described the incident as an accident, saying the plane was hitting its target when the ship was so close to the target that the accident happened. The crashed ship was built in 2018 with a missile from the sea. Able to fire.

According to Arab media, it has not yet been confirmed how many members were on board the plane at the time of the accident, but the Turkish agency claimed that there were more than 40 members on board, of whom 20 were killed.

Turkish News Agency says Iranian Revolutionary Guards have called the incident a human error.