The smell of frankincense – a hard-to-pin-down, piquant-woody aroma – wafts around the maze-like lanes of the centuries ... the azure waters of the Gulf of Oman, is perhaps an unlikely place ...

The Norwegian-owned tanker Front Altair, carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, was set ablaze On 13 June, two tankers were damaged by explosions in the Gulf of Oman ... of the sea" on 14 June.