Mystery Blasts Rock Mediterranean Tankers

ATHENS, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Three oil tankers have been damaged by blasts in the last month in separate incidents around the Mediterranean, with the causes unknown, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday.

The incidents are the first involving blast damage to non-military vessels to have taken place around the central Mediterranean in decades.

An explosion caused a one-metre inward breach below the waterline on the hull of Greek-operated crude oil tanker Seajewel at a port in northern Italy on Saturday, one of the shipping sources said. A second blast occurred 20 minutes la…