The Navy on Thursday morning launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, deploying helicopters to scour the waters off Mumbai coast, where the accommodation barge P305 went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before it sank Monday.
Video: Navy s Searchlights Find Survivors Of Sunken Barge In The Dark Video: Navy s Searchlights Find Survivors Of Sunken Barge In The Dark Workmen rescued from the barge narrated their horrifying experience in their quest for survival before the Navy rescued them
Updated: May 19, 2021 10:44 pm IST
The Navy s ships and aircraft worked through the night to find survivors of the barge
Mumbai:
A dramatic video showed the Navy s searchlights zooming in on survivors in the sea as operations to rescue the crew of a barge that sank off the Mumbai coast during Cyclone Tauktae entered its third day.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Navy said its ships and aircraft participating in the search and rescue operations have so far saved 186 people, including two from a tugboat, Varapradha.
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PTI
Mumbai: As many as 26 personnel on board accommodation barge P305 that went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast are dead and 49 are still missing, as the Navy continued search and rescue operations through the night, an official said. The Navy said its personnel, battling extreme weather, have so far rescued 186 of the 261 people who were onboard barge P305 and also two from tugboat Varaprada.
So far 26 bodies have been recovered and 49 people who were on the barge P305 which sank on Monday are missing.
The Navy had so far maintained that there were 273 persons on board the barge but an official on Wednesday evening said that the company which operated it has informed that there were 261 personnel on board the ill-fated barge. The Navy s Search and Rescue (SAR) operations off Mumbai and Gujarat entered its third day today. Naval ships and aircraft are presently undertaking SAR of the missing crew members of Accommodation
A photo released by the Indian Navy shows stranded workers from a barge being airlifted by a Seaking helicopter during an evacuation operation in the Arabian sea. (AFP)
MUMBAI: As many as 26 personnel on board accommodation barge P305 that went adrift in cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast are dead and 49 are still missing, as the navy continued search and rescue operations through the night, an official said on Wednesday.
The navy said its personnel, battling extreme weather, have so far rescued 186 of the 261 people who were onboard barge P305 and also two from tugboat Varaprada. Chances of finding more survivors are looking bleak, an official said.