The U.S. Department of State, in its press briefing of October 11, said that, while work
continues to arrive at a definitive judgment regarding the cause of the explosion on board the French supertanker LIMBURG, "there is significant evidence to suggest that an explosion that originated externally damaged the LIMBURG."
Source: HK Law
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