India, Nov. 4 -- India has lost 23 nationals, including 15 seafarers, in the ongoing conflict in West Asia, while five Indians have been killed and two are missing in attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday, November 3, taking the combined toll to 28 dead.

Briefing reporters in New Delhi, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the West Asia toll had risen from 22 at the previous briefing, after an Indian seafarer was killed when a ship was attacked off the coast of Oman on Monday. The vessel was the Indian-flagged MSV Al Jusufi, which had 14 Indian crew members on board. Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal earlier confirmed the death and identif...