UP merchant navy sailor missing after oil tanker attacked off coast of Oman
The missing sailor, Veer Bahadur Yadav, hails from Badka Gaon village under Barhaj tehsil in Deoria district.
The families of two young sailors, Amit Singh, 20, and Bir Bahadur Yadav, 25, are devastated after learning of their deaths following a drone attack on an oil tanker off Oman. The tanker, MT Petro Dolphin, was hit near Sohar anchorage on Sunday, leaving nine Indian crew members and one Bangladeshi national rescued. Both men were on the main deck when the attack occurred, marking this as their first sailing job for Amit and their fourth for Bir.
Their families, from northern Indian villages, are coping with an "incomprehensible loss" and describe the situation as "broken" and "as if they are dead." Ravindar Singh, Amit's uncle, shared that his nephew was working on the main deck during the attack and expressed shock at the rising danger faced by merchant ships in the Iran-US and Russia-Ukraine wars.
The family of Bir Bahadur Yadav, who was also targeted, held out hope that he may have jumped into the sea, giving a 10% chance of his survival.
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