8 Believed Dead in Persian Gulf Attack
Two Indian rig workers missing since Tuesday’s attack on an offshore Abu Dhabi oil field are now presumed dead, bringing the death toll to eight, oil sources said Sunday.
The bodies of three Frenchmen, two Indians and a Pakistani were found earlier after unidenified planes made a missile strike on the Abu al Bukhoosh field in the Persian Gulf, 100 miles northwest of Abu Dhabi.
Oil sources and diplomats said that Iran might have mounted the raid in response to Iraq’s devastating Nov. 14 attack on its Sassan oil field, part of the same reservoir.
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