Krishnanagar (Nadia): Three youths from Nadia who were part of the catering crew on board P-305 are among those missing since the barge sank off Mumbai coast when Cyclone Tauktae made landfall on May 17.
The company, which employed Sribash Biswas, Sajal Biswas and Tanmoy Ghosh, has asked their family members to come to Mumbai with necessary identification documents. While two families have already left for the western city, one is wait-ing for Covid-negative report to board the special train. In Nadia, anxious relatives are hoping against hope for a reunion.
Son of a poor farmer in Krishnanagar-Jahangirpur, 27-year-old Sribash couldn’t complete his graduation and took up a waiter’s job last October. “My son had called me last Sunday to inform me about the cyclone. Later that night, he sent a message saying he would abandon the sinking vessel and jump into the sea if there were no rescue boats in sight,” mother Aradhana said between sobs and sniffles.
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KOZHIKODE: Agnel V Varkey, 25, believes he is still alive only because of God’s mercy. After jumping into the Arabian Sea from the ill-fated barge off Mumbai coast on May 17, he was praying mostly during his 15-hour ordeal in the sea. A native of Chembanoda, Kozhikode, he was among the 186 people rescued by the Indian Navy after the barge, P-305, was caught in Cyclone Tauktae and sank around 70km off coast.
“I confronted death many times in the rough sea. Though I had reached near the INS’s rescue ship more than six times, huge waves swept me away. I stayed afloat in the rough sea for one entire night and the following morning. I’m alive only because of Jesus who heeded the voice of my prayer all the while I was in the sea,” said Agnel.
Barge accident: Afcons to pay Rs 35-75 lakh to families of deceased personnel
The chartered barge P-305 sank in the Arabian Sea near the ONGC oil wells in Bombay High due to cyclone Tauktae on Monday.
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People rescued by the Indian navy from a barge that sank in the Arabian sea walk out from Indian naval ship INS Kochi in Mumbai. (Photo | AP) By PTI
MUMBAI: Afcons Infrastructure, whose chartered barge had sunk in the Arabian Sea due to a cyclone this week leaving at least 51 people dead, on Friday said it will provide compensation ranging from Rs 35-75 lakh to the families of the deceased personnel.
PTI | Mumbai | Updated: 20-05-2021 21:07 IST | Created: 20-05-2021 21:04 IST
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Rahman Shaikh, chief engineer of the P-305 barge that sank off the Mumbai coast during cyclone Tauktae, alleged on Thursday that its captain did not take the cyclone warning seriously, leading to the death of at least 49 crew members.
He also questioned the vessel s seaworthiness.
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P-305 which housed personnel engaged in maintenance work of an offshore oil drilling platform of state-run oil and gas major ONGC, sank on Monday evening.
Recovering from injuries, Shaikh said in a video shot by his brother Aalam that Balwinder Singh, the captain, insisted that wind speeds will not be very high and the cyclonic storm will last only for an hour.