Cyclone Tauktae: Tugboat Varaprada Captain’s body found with 5 others in Gujarat’s Valsad

New Delhi: The native authorities in Gujarat’s Valsad found six our bodies believd to have been drowned in the tugboat tragedy on the Arabian Sea. Among them had been the our bodies of tugboat (Varaprada) captain recognized as Nagendra Kumar whereas 5 different our bodies had been additionally been fished out however their identities are but to be ascertained. 

Since Saturday night, our bodies had been recovered from two totally different locations in south Gujarat, Valsad Superintendent of Police Rajdeepsinh Jhala stated. 

Speaking to PTI, Jhala stated the our bodies gave the impression to be of members of the Barge P305 that had sunk off the Mumbai coast. He stated out of the 4 our bodies found on Saturday, one was recognized as that of the captain of tugboat ”Varaprada” that sank final Monday.

Two extra our bodies had been found on the shore of Gujarat’s Valsad district on Sunday and they’re suspected to be of the lacking victims of the barge P305 and a tugboat that sank in the Arabian Sea throughout Cyclone Tauktae, a police official stated. “We are trying to identify the other five bodies,” he stated.

Barge P-305, which housed personnel engaged in upkeep work of an offshore oil drilling platform of the state-run oil and fuel main ONGC, sank on Monday night off the Mumbai coast.  It was caught in excessive velocity winds and swelling sea attributable to the ‘extraordinarily extreme cyclone’ which brushed the Mumbai coast on its solution to Gujarat.

The Barge P-305 hit an unmanned platform of ONGC ensuing in water ingress and finally capsized at round 1700 hrs on May 17.

There had been 261 individuals onboard Afcons’ Barge P-305, whereas 186 had been rescued, 66 our bodies have up to now been recorded and 9 are nonetheless lacking.