NEW DELHI/MANILA — In little over a day after bombs started raining down in West Asia on Feb 28, 2026, tragedy hit two homes in different corners of India. It was allegedly from a missile attack on an oil tanker, Skylight, near Oman’s Khasab port on March 1, which claimed two Indian victims. Mr Ashish Kumar, the captain of the vessel from Bihar state in east India, was killed after a direct hit on the vessel’s engine room caused a devastating fire. Another crew member, Mr Dalip from Rajasthan state in the west, whose passport lists only one name, was reported missing and […]... Keep on reading: ‘Ships like jails’: Thousands of sailors stranded in Gulf conflict