New Delhi, June 16 -- Indian stock market benchmarks, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, suffered significant losses on Friday, tracking Asian peers such as Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's Kospi, as tensions between Israel and Iran spooked investors.

The Sensex opened at 80,427.81 against its previous close of 81,691.98 and dropped over 1,300 points, or 1.6 per cent, to hit an intraday low of 80,354.59, while the Nifty started the day at 24,473 against its previous close of 24,888.20 and crashed 1.7 per cent to an intraday low of 24,473.

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