Oil tanker carrying 19 Indian seafarers hit off UAE coast, all crew evacuated

Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that all 19 Indian seafarers aboard a Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker were evacuated safely after the vessel came under a projectile attack off Mina Saqr in the UAE. The tanker, MT DOMINICA PROSPERITY, was carrying 22 crew members, including 19 Indians, when it was targeted while drifting off Mina Saqr on November 11.