District Magistrate Sameer Saurabh on Tuesday confirmed that the Indian sailor who died in attacks on two merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was 31-year-old Rohan Kumar from Gopalganj district of Bihar.
“An official has been specially sent to the family of the deceased to initiate paperwork to repatriate the body,” DM said, while refusing to specify which vessels the victim Rohan was working on when the incident occurred.
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A sailor was killed and 10 Indian citizens were injured
The sailor was killed and 10 other Indian nationals were injured, two of them seriously, in missile attacks on two UAE oil tankers – MT Mombasa and MT Al Bahia – in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
Rohan’s family members said they learned about the incident after a senior official from the company he was associated with called him around 5 am on Tuesday and informed him of the tragedy. Manish Kumar, the elder brother of the deceased, said that Rohan was the youngest of three brothers.
He said: “My brother was attacked while working in Bahia. He stayed with us for a few months during vacation and returned to work on June 8, promising to join the family after completing this trip contract in four months. Now we are waiting for his remains to arrive.”
The victim’s father, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, said, “Rohan was working tirelessly at sea to support the family. But those dreams have been shattered now,” the victim’s father said.
