A naval helicopter and boats of the Navy and Coast Guard had been deployed to search out lacking passengers. (File)
Mumbai:
The physique of a 43-year-old man who was among the many two lacking passengers after a Navy craft rammed into their ferry off the Mumbai coast, was discovered on Thursday, police mentioned.
The physique was discovered close to the ferry, police mentioned. The dying depend within the tragedy has now gone as much as 14.
Search operation continues to find a seven-year-old boy who continues to be lacking a day after the tragedy, a police official added.
A naval helicopter and boats of the Navy and Coast Guard had been deployed on Thursday to search for the lacking passengers.
Eight boats, together with these from the Navy and Coast Guard are concerned within the Search and Rescue (SAR) operation, the official mentioned.
Of the 113 individuals on board each the vessels, 14 died and 98, together with two injured, had been rescued. There have been six individuals on board the Navy craft, of which two survived, the official mentioned.
13 individuals, together with Navy personnel and two contractual naval staff, had been killed when the Navy craft dashed in opposition to the passenger ferry ‘Neel Kamal’, carrying greater than 100 passengers from the Gateway of India to the Elephanta Island, on Wednesday afternoon.
The Navy on Thursday instituted a Board of Inquiry to probe the collision of the naval boat with the passenger ferry.
“A Board of Inquiry has been ordered into the accident to determine the details of the case,” the Navy mentioned.
Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Ok Tripathi supplied condolences to the grieving households of those that misplaced their lives within the accident and wished for a speedy and full restoration of those that had been injured.
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