VOL. XXXI
NO. 1
12-OCTOBER-1987
GULF SHIPPING
Iraq Mounts Major Air Strike on Iran's Larak Terminal
Apart from the sinking of three Iranian gunboats by US helicopters, the highpoint of last week's Gulf hostilities was a major raid by Iraqi warplanes onIran's Larak Island oil terminal at the mouth of Gulf hitting five Iranianchartered shuttle and storage tankers, one of which was subsequently declared atotal loss.
The 5 October Iraqi raid on Larak, which involved Iraqi aircraft flying some550 miles...
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