Dharamshala, June 18 -- The mortal remains of 23-year-old deck cadet Aditya Sharma, who was killed in a US strike on a vessel off the coast of Oman last week, reached Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday.

The remains were kept at Dr Radhakrishnan Government Medical College, Hamirpur. His last rites will be performed in his native village, Bhalu, in Galore tehsil on Thursday, family members said.

Aditya, a deck cadet on probation, was among three Indian crew members killed when the US military struck the Palau-flagged oil tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman on June 10. He was among the 24 Indian crew members on board the vessel when it was targeted near the Strait of Hormuz. While 21 crew members were rescued by responding Oman...