Several explosions were heard on Wednesday night in the Karpan area of Sirik, a town in Iran's southern Hormozgan province overlooking the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported, according to Anadolu Agency and Arab News. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, and local sources had yet to provide details about the cause or nature of the blasts, the agency said.

IRNA did not say whether the area had been attacked or whether missiles had been launched from it, BBC News Arabic reported. The broadcaster said the explosions were the first of their kind in the area this month, following a period of relative calm and a halt to bombardment in recent weeks of the war between the United States and Iran. Awaaz Punjab is not treating the blasts as an attack: no side has claimed responsibility and no official cause has been given.

The incident came on a tense day around the waterway. Yadollah Javani, the political deputy of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, warned on the same day that internet cables running through the strait could be targeted if Iranian infrastructure came under attack, Iran International reported. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow route through which a significant share of the world's oil supplies passes — has faced continuing disruption, and late on Wednesday Iranian state media's report of the explosions was also noted in coverage of the United States ordering some embassy staff and families to leave Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks on the kingdom.

For the lakhs of Indian and Punjabi workers in the Gulf and for families who depend on Gulf remittances and flights, any new incident near Hormuz matters because the strait drives oil prices and shipping schedules across the region. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if Iranian officials give a cause or if damage or casualties are confirmed.