Iranian forces captured 15 British sailors and marines at gunpoint, says the MOD.
The men, from HMS Cornwall, were seized after they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which the navy says they “suspected was smuggling cars.”
The Royal Navy said it was doing all it could to secure the men’s release.
They were said to be carrying out a routine patrol in Iraqi waters.
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