This is the moment Iranians went fishing for iPhones and French perfume after a container ship was blown up by a mine and sank in the Strait of Hormuz.
Footage shows hundreds of men scrambling for loot after thousands of containers were left floating in the vital waterway.
According to Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ship had sailed through an ‘unauthorised and dangerous’ part of the strait when it hit a mine.
The cargo vessel had sunk after a blaze erupted on board and all 21 crew members were evacuated uninjured.
More than 2,500 containers were being transported by the Singapore-flagged ship
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