By Jana Choukeir and Ahmed Tolba
DUBAI/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) – Explosions hit a natural gas loading port on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt on Wednesday, and British maritime security company Ambrey said a U.S.-owned floating storage tanker there had been hit by a drone, in a potential spread of the Middle East war.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident in the Egyptian port of Damietta.
Earlier on Wednesday the United States and Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed paramilitary groups in Iraq, and U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to “beat the fucking shit” out of Iran for firing on U.S. troops days after he halted air strikes.
(Reporting by Timour Azhari, Parisa Hafezi, Doina Chiacu, Ahmed Tolba, Kanishka Singh and Reuters bureauxWriting by Peter GraffEditing by Toby Chopra)
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