Hamirpur, June 13 -- Grief has enveloped Bhalu village in Hamirpur district's Galore tehsil after news of the death of 23-year-old deck cadet Aditya Sharma, with residents describing the tragedy as a loss for the entire community.

As his family struggles to come to terms with the loss, the villagers are finding it difficult to accept that a bright, well-mannered and soft-spoken young man is gone. Aditya was the only child of his parents.

Aditya, a deck cadet on probation, was among three Indian crew members killed after the US military struck the Palau-flagged oil tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman on June 10.

"When the village came to know about the incident, everyone was left speechless. It is difficult to believe. The entire v...