"Videos the crew shared with Mr. Yadav showed a fire in the engine room. One of the two lifeboats on the ship had been destroyed when the ship was hit and the second was inaccessible, he said."
Nick Turse
“We have fire onboard, we have fire onboard.” Two dozen Indian sailors aboard an oil tanker struck by a U.S. missile off the coast of Oman on Monday sent frantic SOS messages for more than two hours before they were rescued.
The 24 crew members were stranded for more than two hours before being rescued by an Omani military helicopter. The U.S. military said that the ship had violated its blockade of Iran.
