Reuters May 19, 2021 Photo shows rescue operation on another barge off India battered by the storm - Credit: Press Iinformation Bureau Maharashtra
Fourteen people have died as a barge sank off India s west coast after a powerful cyclone barrelled into the country, authorities said on Wednesday, while Indian navy ships and aircraft scoured waters to locate scores of other missing personnel. We can confirm that 14 bodies have been recovered from the rescue operation of barge P305 that sank off the coast of Mumbai, Mehul Karnik, chief public relations officer, Western Naval Command told Reuters.
Indian navy ships and aircraft have been scouring the waters off the country s financial capital since Monday when the P305 and some other vessels went adrift due to the cyclone.
Cyclone Tauktae: 638 ONGC men rescued, 93 still at sea off Mumbai coast
Cyclone Tauktae: 638 ONGC men rescued, 93 still at sea off Mumbai coast
ByMateen Hafeez,V NarayanMateen Hafeez and V Narayan / Updated: May 19, 2021, 09:19 IST
(This story was first published in the Times of India on May 19, 2021)
Five Indian Navy ships, along with naval helicopters and the Coast Guard, were racing against time to locate and rescue 93 crew members of Barge Papaa (
P-305) who were still missing till late Tuesday night, more than 20 hours after their barge sank 38 nautical miles off the
Mumbai coast in the intervening hours of Monday and Tuesday.
Fourteen die after barge sinks as cyclone batters India s west coast
05/19/2021 8:06
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Fourteen people have died as a barge sank off India s west coast after a powerful cyclone barrelled into the country, authorities said on Wednesday, while Indian navy ships and aircraft scoured waters to locate scores of other missing personnel. We can confirm that 14 bodies have been recovered from the rescue operation of barge P305 that sank off the coast of Mumbai, Mehul Karnik, chief public relations officer, Western Naval Command told Reuters.
Indian navy ships and aircraft have been scouring the waters off the country s financial capital since Monday when the P305 and some other vessels went adrift due to the cyclone.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian navy ships recovered 22 bodies of people who were aboard a barge that sank off Mumbai as a cyclone blew ashore this week, officials said