Oil tanker with 15 Indians on board hit off Oman coast amid Iran-Israel conflict

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A Palau-flagged oil tanker was hit on Sunday off the coast of Oman, leaving four persons on board injured, the Oman Maritime Security Centre said.

Fifteen of the 20 persons on the tanker, named Skylight, were Indians, while the remaining five were Iranians. All of them have been evacuated, the authority stated.

The Oman Maritime Security Centre did not specify what hit the vessel. However, the strike took place amid a wave of retaliatory strikes by Tehran following joint attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran that killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The oil tanker was hit around 5 nautical miles north of the Khasab Port in the Musandam governorate on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the maritime security centre said in a social media post.

The registered owner of the oil tanker Skylight is Sea Force Inc and the vessel is managed by Red Sea Ship Management LLC, Reuters reported.

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