An Indian-flagged vessel with 14 crew members onboard suffered an engine failure off the coast of Oman, prompting rescue operations, said the Indian Embassy in Muscat on Sunday.
It added that the crew onboard the vessel Virat 1, who were all Indian, were safely transferred to a liferaft.
The vessel had begun sinking about 80 nautical miles east of Ras Al Hadd in Oman, reported ANI. The embassy did not provide further details about the incident or the vessel’s condition.
This came in the wake of a series of incidents in the region involving vessels with Indian crew members, as tensions continue in West Asia.
Three Indian sailors were killed after the United States’ military on Wednesday attacked the Palau-flagged tanker Settebello off the coast of Oman.
On Thursday, the US said that its military had “disabled” another tanker off the coast of Oman as it was allegedly attempting to transport oil from Iran.
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