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I survived a missile strike in the Strait of Hormuz, but my friend has not been found
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- Kayleen Devlin,BBC Verifyand Phoebe Keane,BBC News Sunil Puniya Sunil Puniya was asleep in his cabin at the time of the attack"I felt the whole ship shake.
- Sunil Puniya, 26, was on his first job at sea when a missile struck the oil tanker Skylight in the early hours of 1 March.
- The US-sanctioned vessel had travelled from Dubai and was nearing the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's busiest shipping routes.
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Kayleen Devlin,BBC Verifyand Phoebe Keane,BBC News Sunil Puniya Sunil Puniya was asleep in his cabin at the time of the attack"I felt the whole ship shake. I thought there'd been some fault with the engine. But as soon as I stepped outside of my room, there was another explosion."
Sunil Puniya, 26, was on his first job at sea when a missile struck the oil tanker Skylight in the early hours of 1 March.
The US-sanctioned vessel had travelled from Dubai and was nearing the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's busiest shipping routes. Skylight was the first commercial vessel to be struck after the US-Israel war with Iran erupted in the region.
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