{"id":1771,"date":"2026-06-12T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:41:42","slug":"indians-grieve-and-call-for-action-after-us-strike-kills-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"Indians grieve\u00a0and call for action after US strike kills sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>DEORIA, India, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Sushila Devi sat sobbing on the floor of her house \u200bin Deoria, northern India after authorities told her that her husband was one of three sailors killed in a U.S. attack \u200con a ship off Oman.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;If he had told us about the dangers, I would have called him back,&#8221; she cried out as women from the family gathered round to console her. &#8220;The government should not allow people to go there.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>India on Friday took the rare step of lodging a second protest with the U.S. over the strike that \u200btook place more than three months into the Iran war. Sushila Devi&#8217;s words echoed calls also building up among Indians for their own \u200bgovernment to do more to protect its sailors stuck in the Gulf.<\/div>\n<h2>CRITICS WANT MORE THAN &#8216;ROUTINE PROTEST&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div>Her husband Shivanand Chaurasia, \u2060the sole earner in the family with two young children, was among 24 Indian mariners aboard the Palau-flagged tanker Settebello when it was hit \u200bon Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div>The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command said an aircraft fired precision munitions into the vessel&#8217;s engine room after the crew &#8220;repeatedly failed to comply with \u200bdirections from American forces&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>It said the strike was part of an ongoing blockade targeting oil shipments from Iran launched after Tehran sharply curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which carried a fifth of the world&#8217;s oil and liquefied natural gas before the conflict.<\/div>\n<div>India&#8217;s foreign ministry said it had summoned the U.S. charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires to convey &#8220;its deep \u200bconcern over the use of lethal and deadly force against civilian shipping&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Such actions are unacceptable and undermine the safety, security and stability of international \u200bmaritime commerce in a sensitive region at a difficult time.&#8221; The U.S. embassy in Delhi did not respond to a request for comment.<\/div>\n<div>The deaths have prompted calls \u200con India&#8217;s \u2060Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go beyond registering protests.<\/div>\n<div>India &#8211; the world\u2019s second-largest supplier of seafarers behind the Philippines according to government figures<br \/>\n &#8211; has had to pay a huge cost for the conflict it played no part in starting, say opposition and other critics.<\/div>\n<div>On Thursday, another ship with 20 Indian crew was attacked, with no deaths or injuries reported.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;India has responded &#8230; with a routine diplomatic protest and apparent efforts to downplay the significance of the attacks,&#8221; said Brahma \u200bChellaney, a strategic affairs analyst in \u200bNew Delhi.<\/div>\n<h2>OPPOSITION SAYS MODI SHOULD TALK \u2060TO TRUMP<\/h2>\n<div>&#8220;Had the victims been Chinese sailors instead, Beijing would almost certainly have reacted very differently, treating the strikes as a direct and lethal provocation by the U.S. and elevating the incident into a major international \u200bcrisis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>The opposition Aam Aadmi Party urged Modi to take up the matter with U.S. President Donald Trump. The \u200btwo leaders are expected \u2060to meet on the sidelines of next week&#8217;s Group of 7 summit.<\/div>\n<div>The main opposition Congress party said the government\u2019s policies had &#8220;emboldened external powers to act against Indian interests with impunity&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;India&#8217;s strategic autonomy and abiding interests must be defended with clarity and resolve,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div>Such attacks could deter workers from taking up seafaring \u2060jobs, potentially \u200bworsening labour shortages in the industry, said Manoj Yadav, general secretary of the Forward \u200bSeamen&#8217;s Union of India.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The repeated incidents demonstrate the alarming deterioration of safety and security in one of the world\u2019s most important maritime corridors,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1769\">Ukraine\u2019s defence AI chief predicts \u2018new paradigm\u2019 of warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1767\">US, Canada delay opening of new bridge after Trump raised objections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1765\">Jane Fonda to host First Amendment celebration opposite Trump\u2019s UFC Freedom 250 event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushila Devi sat sobbing on the floor of her house \u200bin Deoria, northern India after authorities told her that her husband was one of three sailors killed in a U.S. attack \u200con a ship off Oman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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