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Two Indian sailors missing after drone attack on vessel off Oman

Rank
34
Running
9h
Updated
1h ago
Momentum
+20%
Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
9
Languages
3

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 11 Oct, 18:07 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · Lietuvių (1) · +1 language

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 9 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Arab News, 11 Oct, 18:07 UTC.
  2. Second country: Jamaica, with Jamaica Observer.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Jamaica Observer.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 18:07 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

10 of 10 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

22%56%

  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 5 countries · 56%

First movers

  1. Arab News 11 Oct, 18:07 UTC
  2. Jamaica Observer +2m
  3. Gulf News +39m
  4. LRT +2h 23m
  5. An-Nahar +2h 27m

Latest arrivals

  1. NDTV 12 Oct, 02:21 UTC
  2. Maritime Executive 12 Oct, 00:47 UTC
  3. Anadolu Agency 11 Oct, 21:54 UTC
  4. SANA 11 Oct, 20:57 UTC
  5. An-Nahar 11 Oct, 20:34 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Jamaica, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: India. Europe 1: Lithuania. Middle East 5: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Lithuanian.
Timeline
Earliest article Arab News, 11 Oct 2026, 18:07 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 18:10 UTC. Last seen 12 Oct 2026, 02:21 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Middle East, Oman. Topic Conflict & Security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
4.35, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
11 Oct 2026 84 7.13 7 7 7 7 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 11 Oct, 18:10 UTC · Updated 12 Oct, 02:21 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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  • NDTV India 12 Oct, 02:21 UTC
    2 Indian Sailors Missing After Drone Attack On Tanker Near Hormuz
  • Maritime Executive United States 12 Oct, 00:47 UTC
    Two Seafarers Missing in Drone Attack on Product Tanker off Oman
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 11 Oct, 21:54 UTC
    2 Indian nationals missing after tanker hit by drone off Oman’s coast
  • SANA Syria 11 Oct, 20:57 UTC
    الهند تعلن فقدان بحّارين إثر هجوم بطائرة مسيّرة على سفينة قبالة سواحل عُمان
  • An-Nahar Lebanon 11 Oct, 20:34 UTC
    الهند تعلن فقدان بحّارين إثر هجوم على سفينة قبالة سواحل عُمان
  • LRT Lithuania 11 Oct, 20:30 UTC
    Užpuolus laivą prie Omano krantų dingo du Indijos jūrininkai
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 11 Oct, 18:46 UTC
    Two Indian seafarers missing after vessel hit by drone in Strait of Hormuz
  • Jamaica Observer Jamaica 11 Oct, 18:09 UTC
    Two Indian sailors missing after vessel attacked off Oman
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 11 Oct, 18:07 UTC
    Two Indian sailors missing after vessel attacked off Oman
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