New Delhi, June 14 -- Congress leader Pawan Khera on Sunday said that the government should have demanded an apology over the US attack on a commercial ship in the Gulf in which three Indians were killed and said the External Affairs Minister's remarks were only a "mild rebuke".

Khera told ANI that a commercial vessel of a third country cannot be attacked in a conflict.

"Jaishankar's post says that the words he used was not justified. It's a very mild way of rebuking somebody who's killed your own people. Whereas Rubio's statement is very harsh on us. You've killed our people, you have to apologize. There are international laws. You can't attack a commercial vessel of a third country in a conflict. There is a San Remo Manual which gover...