New Delhi, June 14 -- Congress leader Manish Tewari on Sunday accused the United States of not being regretful of the incident in which three sailors were killed in US missile strike on a merchant vessel in the Gulf and said the tone of its statement put out after conversation between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was "very coarse".

He said rather than being remorseful, the US has been "rather belligerent".

"It is extremely unfortunate. If you peruse the readout which has been put out by the US State Department, it is very clear that the US, rather than being regretful, remorseful, sensitive, empathetic, sympathetic with regard to the unfortunate demise of 3 Indian sailors who were killed i...