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The Navy and the Coast Guard have so far rescued more than 600 ONGC staff from the various barge since the cyclone storm Tauktae battered the region and caused massive destruction.
38 Missing, 186 Rescued Four Days After Cyclone Sank Barge Off Mumbai Cyclone Tauktae: The Navy is leading a massive, round-the-clock rescue effort that includes several of its ships, P-81 reconnaissance aircraft and Sea King helicopters
Updated: May 20, 2021 12:28 pm IST
Cyclone Tauktae: Barge P-305 was one of three belonging to engineering company Afcons
Mumbai/New Delhi:
38 ONGC workers are still missing four days after a barge that was carrying 261 people sank 35 nautical miles off Mumbai as Cyclone Tauktae battered India s west coast.
So far 186 people have been rescued and 37 bodies recovered from the wreck of barge P-305, which was one of three - the others were Gal Constructor and Support Station-3 - deployed by engineering firm Afcons for its ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) contract.
20 May 2021 2:14 GMT Updated 20 May 2021 7:10 GMT in London
India s Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas has launched a high-level investigation into the barge sinking offshore India that is now confirmed to have claimed at least 22 lives with more than 50 other personnel still unaccounted for.
Disaster struck on Monday when Cyclone Tauktee barrelled across the Arabian Sea and slammed into Oil & Natural Gas Corporation’s Mumbai High asset. Three Afcons’ barges, including Papaa 305 – which subsequently capsized and sank – and an ONGC drillship bore the brunt of the worst cyclone to hit the region in more than 20 years.
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