24 Indian sailors rescued from ship attacked by U.S.

INTERNATIONAL-ASIA

9 JUNE 2026

• Twenty-four Indian seafarers were rescued from tanker Marivex, a ship sanctioned by the U.S. for Iran links, off the south-eastern coast of Oman, after a U.S. missile strike.
• The sailors sent distress messages to a Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) office-bearer that the U.S. Navy had attacked the ship’s engine room.
• The Marivex crew’s distress message says that there was a U.S. warship nearby that was not helping, neither was there an immediate response from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.
• Marivex was one of the few ships that exited the Strait of Hormuz on April 9, 2026 just when the ceasefire was declared. It had then carried crude oil from Bandar Abbas in Iran to Mangalore.