Mumbaikar Engineer Killed in Iran Drone Attack on US Ship; Kandivali Mourns

• Devanandan Prasad Singh, a Mumbaikar engineer from Kandivali, died in an Iranian drone attack on an American-owned crude oil tanker 'Safsea Vishnu'.
• Singh, an 'Additional Chief Engineer', suffered severe burns in the explosion near Iraq and succumbed to his injuries; 15 other Indian sailors were rescued.
• Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for the underwater drone attack, targeting the US-owned ship.
• Devanandan, 50, had moved to Kandivali from Bihar in 2019 and was the sole breadwinner for his wife and two children.
• This marks the second Kandivali resident's death in recent attacks, following Dixit Solanki's demise in an Oman attack.