India, July 15 -- The Indian seafarer who died in attacks on two commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was 31-year-old Rohan Kumar from Bihar's Gopalganj district, confirmed district magistrate (DM) Sameer Saurabh on Tuesday.

"An official has especially been sent to the deceased's family to initiate the paperwork to repatriate the body," said the DM, while declining to specify the vessels on which victim Rohan was working when the incident occurred.

The sailor was killed and 10 other Indian nationals were injured, two of them seriously, in missiles attacks on two Emirati oil tankers-MT Mombasa and MT Al Bahiyah-in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

Rohan's family members said they learned about the incident after a senior...