Crew of Thai ship attacked in Hormuz Strait safely return home

Twenty crew members rescued from a Thai cargo ship that was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz last week have safely arrived in Bangkok.

According to a CNN reporter who was at the scene, they landed at Bangkok’s main airport at around 8 a.m. local time on Monday and were immediately escorted away by law enforcement officers.

All returning crew members are in good health and are “ready to return to their duties,” a representative of Reuters quoted a spokesperson for Thailand’s Department of Consular Affairs as saying.

Caliber.Az recalls that the vessel Mayuree Naree came under fire on March 11 after it “ignored warnings and persistently attempted to illegally pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”

At least three crew members remain missing.

Another vessel, the Liberia-flagged Express Rome, was also “hit by Iranian shells that same morning after ignoring warnings from the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

By Khagan Isayev