{"id":17708,"date":"2026-07-15T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17708"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:47:49","slug":"us-resumes-blockade-on-iran-launches-strikes-after-attacks-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17708","title":{"rendered":"US resumes blockade on Iran, launches strikes after attacks in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><!----><time class=\"time\" datetime=\"Wed Jul 15 2026 07:46:52 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)\">7 hours ago<\/time><!----><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><!--(-->Indian marine engineer killed after Iran says it struck commercial ship off Oman<!--)--><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--(--><!--(--><!----><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>An Indian marine engineer is dead after a commercial vessel was struck off the coast of Oman on Sunday, according to Reuters, citing his family and the Indian consulate in Dubai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Heramb Karmarkar, 30, was an engineer aboard the Cyprus-flagged GFS Galaxy, which Iranian authorities later said they had targeted off the coast of Oman on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>The ship and its 24-member crew were hit by an &#8220;unidentified projectile,&#8221; Reuters reported, citing Cyprus authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Iran said it targeted the vessel after it attempted to transit through what Tehran described as an unauthorized route despite warnings to change course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Vivek Tandon, Karmarkar&#8217;s father-in-law, told Reuters that the ship&#8217;s operating company informed him that Karmarkar had died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Karmarkar is the second Indian national reported killed in the region this week. India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs said an Indian crew member aboard a UAE-flagged supertanker died after an Iranian cruise missile struck the vessel Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--(--><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--)--><!--)--><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 hours ago Indian marine engineer killed after Iran says it struck commercial ship off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}