The body was flown to Gorakhpur

Jun 18, 2026

12:13 pm

What's the storyThe mortal remains of Indian seafarer Shiv Anand Chaurasia, who was killed in a United States military strike on merchant vessel MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman, reached his home village in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district on Wednesday.

The body was flown to Gorakhpur and then taken to Chaurasia's ancestral village in an ambulance.