India Demands Answers After US Strikes Kill Three Indian Sailors on Oil Tanker

—India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi demanded that Prime Minister Modi publicly account for the deaths of three Indian sailors killed when US military forces struck a commercial oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman during the Iran war. India lodged a formal diplomatic protest, demanding an end to attacks on commercial shipping in the region. The sailors were crew members on a tanker that US forces hit as part of operations targeting Iranian oil revenue. India has large numbers of sailors working on Gulf shipping routes and has commercial ties with both the US and Iran. The incident has injected significant political tension into the India-US relationship.