India's navy deploys warships to Arabian Sea after tanker attack

The Indian Navy has dispatched guided missile destroyers to the Arabian Sea after an attack on an Israel-linked chemical tanker off its coast, the Ministry of Defence said.

Three stealth-guided destroyers were deployed "in various areas of the sea" to "maintain a deterrent presence" considering the "recent spate of attacks in the Arabian Sea", the ministry said in a statement late on Monday. It was also using long-range maritime patrol aircraft for "domain awareness", it said.

The United States claimed that the December 23 strike on MV Chem Pluto in the Indian Ocean was "fired from Iran", an accusation that Tehran has dismissed as baseless.