The Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard ships and helicopters have been pressed into action to locate and rescue nine fishermen who are still missing following the collision
Bodies of two fishermen brought back, buried
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Efforts are on to locate 9 others
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Efforts are on to locate 9 others
The bodies of two fishermen, who were among the three killed in a mid-sea collision of a mechanised boat and a merchant vessel off Mangaluru in the early hours of Tuesday, were brought to Colachel on Thursday and buried.
The victims Alexander, 38, and his father-in-law Dasan, along with 12 others were fishing 55 nautical miles off the Mangaluru coast when a Singapore merchant vessel rammed their boat. All of them drowned due to the impact. The ship crew managed to rescue Velmurugan of Ramanathapuram and Sunil Das of West Bengal but could only retrieve the bodies of Alexander, Dasan and Manik Das of West Bengal.
The boat IFB Rabah, owned by Mamantakath Jaffar, had sailed from Kerala’s Beypore on Sunday with 14 migrant fishermen on board.
KOZHIKODE: At least three fishermen were killed and nine others reported missing after a suspected foreign container ship rammed into their fishing boat 43 nautical miles off the Mangaluru coast on Monday.
The Coast Guard brought ashore two rescued fishermen to Mangaluru by Tuesday.
The boat IFB Rabah, owned by Mamantakath Jaffar, had sailed from Kerala’s Beypore on Sunday with 14 migrant fishermen on board. The boat overturned after being hit by the ship around midnight.
Kasaragod fisheries deputy director Satheesan P V told TOI that the two rescued men don’t have any major injuries. They have been identified as Sunil Das of Bengal and Velmurugan of TN.
Navy joins in search for nine missing fishermen
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Three killed after mechanised fishing boat capsizes off Mangaluru coast
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Three killed after mechanised fishing boat capsizes off Mangaluru coast
The Indian Navy on Wednesday deployed its surface and air assets for the search and rescue of nine missing fishermen of a Kerala-registered mechanised fishing boat which with 14 crew on board capsized off the Mangaluru coast in the early hours of Tuesday.
Three fishermen died, while two crew members were rescued after the boat Rabah suffered a collision with a merchant ship carrying the Singapore flag
mv APL Le Havre at about 2 a.m. about 43 nautical miles west off Mangaluru coast.
The boat IFB Rabah, owned by Mamantakath Jaffar, had sailed from Kerala’s Beypore on Sunday with 14 migrant fishermen on board.
KOZHIKODE: At least three fishermen were killed and nine others reported missing after a suspected foreign container ship rammed into their fishing boat 43 nautical miles off the Mangaluru coast on Monday.
The Coast Guard brought ashore two rescued fishermen to Mangaluru by Tuesday.
The boat IFB Rabah, owned by Mamantakath Jaffar, had sailed from Kerala’s Beypore on Sunday with 14 migrant fishermen on board. The boat overturned after being hit by the ship around midnight.
Kasaragod fisheries deputy director Satheesan P V told TOI that the two rescued men don’t have any major injuries. They have been identified as Sunil Das of Bengal and Velmurugan of TN.