Dharamshala, June 19 -- Bhalu village in Hamirpur came to a standstill on Thursday as prayers and sobs filled the air when the mortal remains of 23-year-old deck cadet Aditya Sharma, who was killed in a US attack on a vessel off the coast of Oman arrived.

Hundreds joined his final journey in his native village, where he was cremated. Aditya's mortal remains reached Hamirpur on Wednesday night and were kept at a hospital, where a post-mortem examination was conducted on Thursday morning and the body was then handed over to the family.

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. There were 24 Indian crew...