21 May 2021 0:41 GMT Updated 21 May 2021 0:41 GMT in London
As more bodies were recovered Thursday following the tragic incident at Oil & Natural Gas Corporation’s Mumbai High fields offshore India and the official investigation gets under way, the perhaps inevitable blame game has escalated.
Local contractor Afcons blamed the extreme weather and the master of chartered barge Papaa 305 for the tragic loss of 37 lives.
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The P 305, which was acting as an accommodation unit and had 261 workers on board when Cyclone Tauktae hit, should have been moved out of harm’s way, The Hindu quoted Afcons as saying.
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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