Three ships attacked by the US in three days: What we know

Three tankers person been struck by the US subject implicit the past 3 days, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 people.

US forces fired a rocket into the motor country of a tanker successful the Gulf of Oman connected Thursday greeting - the 3rd vas to beryllium targeted. US Central Command (Centcom) said the vessel had violated a blockade of Iranian ports and refused to comply with its directions.

Three Indian sailors were killed connected Wednesday aft a onslaught by the US.

The Indian authorities condemned the attack, saying the "targeting of commercialized shipping and civilian infrastructure successful the portion indispensable end". India's overseas ministry summoned the lawman caput of the US embassy successful Delhi to lodge an authoritative protest.

A further 24 Indian unit were rescued from a vessel disconnected Oman's confederate seashore connected Monday aft sending a distress telephone saying the vas was connected occurrence and sinking pursuing a US strike.

The US subject has been blockading Iran's ports aft Tehran efficaciously closed the engaged Strait of Hormuz done which astir 20% of the world's lipid and state supplies are usually transported.

Centcom says it had disabled 9 vessels and redirected 135 much since since the blockade began connected 13 April.

The tanker Jalveer reported that a occurrence had breached retired successful its motor country aboriginal connected Thursday morning, according to maritime hazard absorption institution Vanguard.

Centcom aboriginal said a US craft fired 2 Hellfire missiles into the ship's motor country "after the unit repeatedly failed to comply with directions".

The unit contacted the Omani navy and different adjacent vas asking to beryllium rescued, according to distress calls heard by BBC Verify.

A unit subordinate besides blames the US for the onslaught successful the calls, saying it "just targets merchant ships".

Satellite imagery seen by BBC Verify shows fume billowing from Jalveer.

The vessel had 20 Indian sailors connected board, each of whom were safely evacuated with the assistance of the Royal Navy of Oman, according to Indian authorities.

Centcom said the vessel, which was laden with cargo, had "violated the blockade against Iran by attempting to transport Iranian oil".

Ship tracking information shows Jalveer has sailed betwixt the Gulf and respective Indian ports implicit the past year, but the vessel has not been sanctioned by the US for links to Iran.

Three Indian sailors were killed and 21 had to beryllium rescued aft the US fired "precision munitions" into the motor country of a tanker called Settebello connected Wednesday.

India's shipping curate Sarbananda Sonowal called the incidental "deeply unfortunate" and said the bodies of the 3 men would rapidly beryllium repatriated.

The US says Settebello violated its blockade by "attempting to transport lipid from Iran" and the unit had "repeatedly failed to comply with directions from American forces".

The institution that manages Settebello, IOS Marine FZE, said it "categorically denies" the vessel ignored directions and said it has "no affiliation with Iran oregon Iranian oil".

"No interaction whatsoever was made with the vessel," the institution said arsenic it called connected the US to merchandise grounds of its communications with the ship.

Settebello, which is owned by an Indian institution called Aqua Aurora Shipping Lines, has not been sanctioned by the US but is connected the sanctions database of the run radical United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) which says it has been progressive successful transporting Iranian crude oil.

Ship tracking information shows Settebello has sailed from the Gulf to the Chinese larboard cities of Zhoushan and Lianyungang implicit the past six months.

Settebello's determination tracker has been inactive since 31 May, information connected ship-tracking website MarineTraffic shows, truthful it is not wide wherever the vas was erstwhile it was hit.

IOS Marine FZE said the vessel had been stationary for astir 10 days earlier the strike.

Satellite imagery analysed by BBC Verify from 8 June shows the vessel astir 80 miles (120km) from larboard of Sohar successful Oman.

The Indian unit of a 3rd tanker urged authorities to "please help" aft the vessel was struck by the US connected Monday, saying it was connected occurrence and sinking successful a distress telephone shared with BBC Verify.

Marivex was sanctioned by the US for links with Iran nether a erstwhile sanction - Arihant. The US has besides sanctioned the ship's owner, Arihant Shipping Inc, and has accused the vessel of transporting "hundreds of thousands of barrels of Iranian substance lipid and bitumen wrong the Gulf since July 2025".

Ship-tracking information shows Marivex past stopped astatine the Iranian larboard of Bandar Abbas successful aboriginal April wherever it loaded with cargo and past sailed to 2 cities connected India's westbound seashore - Mangaluru and Karwar, according to MarineTraffic data.

A occurrence broke retired connected the tanker connected Monday, according to Indian authorities who did not initially remark connected the origin of the fire.

Centcom aboriginal confirmed that an F-18 Super Hornet combatant pitchy from the craft bearer USS Abraham Lincoln "fired a precision munition into the ship's engineering and steering spaces".

With the ship's motor disabled, the unit began to nonstop retired distress calls saying it had "a occurrence onboard and vas is sinking", according to a signaling fixed to BBC Verify by the Forward Seaman's Union of India (FSUI).

Flight tracking information shows a Royal Air Force of Oman chopper took disconnected from an aerial basal connected Masirah Island and verified videos supplied by the FSUI amusement the unit aboriginal being lifted from the ship's deck.

Centcom did not reply BBC Verify's question astir whether it had contacted the Omani oregon Indian authorities earlier the strike.

The US strikes person sparked interest successful India astir the information of India seafarers who represent 1 of the largest maritime workforces, with astir 300,000 serving connected vessels crossed the globe.

"While seafarers are not wholly detached from the realities of planetary trade, they are often the stakeholders with the slightest power implicit geopolitical decisions and the top vulnerability to their consequences," said Harsh V Pant of the Observer Research Foundation successful New Delhi.

"India-US relations are passing done a hard signifier and friction volition summation if the attacks intensify but determination won't beryllium a cardinal rupture successful the ties," helium added.

Seafarers' unions person besides expressed interest implicit information successful volatile regions and called for amended protection.

"Seafarers are workers. They are not soldiers," the FSUI said connected Thursday.

"The planetary assemblage cannot stay a soundless spectator portion seafarers are forced to navigate done conditions resembling a warfare zone," the national said.

There are much than 18,000 Indian seafarers successful the Gulf portion and 13 Indian-flagged vessels are inactive stranded successful the Strait of Hormuz, according to India's shipping ministry.