Indian Crew Member Killed in Drone Attack on Oil Tanker MKD VYOM Off Oman

First Civilian Casualty of the Hormuz Crisis

An Indian crew member has been killed in what is being described as the first civilian fatality of the escalating Strait of Hormuz crisis, after an unmanned drone boat packed with explosives struck the oil tanker MKD VYOM approximately 45 nautical miles southeast of Muscat, Oman. The attack, which occurred in …