Indian mariner killed as oil tanker attacked in Gulf of Oman

A bomb-carrying drone vessel struck a Marshall Islands-flagged lipid tanker successful the Gulf of Oman connected Monday (March 2, 2026), sidesplitting 1 mariner connected board, Oman said.

Iran-Israel conflict updates connected March 2, 2026

The state-run Oman News Agency reported the onslaught successful the Gulf of Oman disconnected the seashore of Muscat, the sultanate's capital. It identified the vas arsenic the MKD VYOM. It said the dormant unit subordinate was from India.

Iran has been threatening vessels approaching the Strait of Hormuz, the constrictive rima of the Persian Gulf, and is believed to person launched aggregate attacks arsenic the warfare successful the Mideast continues aft Israel and the United States started a large airstrike run targeting the Islamic Republic.