Hyderabad, June 11 -- United States Central Command on Thursday, June 11, confirmed it was behind the attack on the third ship carrying Indians off the coast of Oman.

"US forces disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman at 11:20 pm on June 10 after the vessel violated the blockade against Iran by attempting to transport Iranian oil, marking the third commercial ship disabled by American forces this week," US CENTCOM said in a statement.

It claimed to have been acting against the motor tanker (MT) Jalveer as it attempted to transport oil from Iran through the Gulf of Oman. A US aircraft fired two American precision-guided Hellfire missiles directly into the ship's engine room. The crew "repeatedly failed to comply with directions from U...