The barge ‘Papaa-305’ or P-305 had 261 individuals on board. Of these, 186 individuals had been rescued.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has arrange a excessive level committee to investigate into the sequence of occasions resulting in the stranding of ONGC vessels in Cyclone Tauktae. Several vessels of ONGC with greater than 600 individuals on board, had been stranded in offshore areas throughout extreme cyclonic storm. The stranding, drifting and subsequent occasions have led to lack of a number of lives.
The three-member committee has been tasked to submit its report inside one month.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police can even conduct a separate probe as to why the ill-fated barge P-305 which sank off Mumbai coast on Monday night stayed in the realm regardless of warnings about cyclone Tauktae.
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Yellow Gate Police in south Mumbai on Wednesday registered an unintended dying report (ADR) in reference to 22 individuals on the barge whose our bodies have been recovered.
The barge ‘Papaa-305’ or P-305 had 261 individuals on board. Of these, 186 individuals had been rescued whereas 53 are nonetheless lacking. Twenty-two had been confirmed as useless.
This barge in addition to two different barges that had been hit by the cyclone had been deployed by Afcons for a contract it had received from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
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The our bodies of the workmen had been delivered to Mumbai by INS Kochi in the morning and 18 extra had been introduced by INS Kolkata, a police official mentioned.
Police try to determine why this lodging barge – it had dwelling quarters for workers working offshore – didn’t transfer away regardless of repeated warnings concerning the cyclone, he mentioned, including that statements of these rescued are being recorded.
“We will also seek the opinion of Director General, Shipping and other related agencies,” he mentioned.
