India, April 22 -- The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)'s navy on Wednesday said that two ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz have been seized.

According to shipping data from Marine Traffic, one ship, a Librarian-flagged container vessel named EPAMINONDAS, was en route to Gujarat in India.

"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval force this morning identified and stopped in the Strait of Hormuz two violating ships. The two offending ships... were seized by the IRGC's naval forces and directed to the Iranian coast," AFP quoted the IRGC as saying in a statement.

The second ship has been identified as a Panama-flagged container ship named MSC-FRANCESCA, which was headed to Sri Lanka's Hambantota.

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