Five injured crew members of cargo vessel ablaze off Kerala cost brought to Mangaluru
Five injured crew members of the Singapore-flagged container vessel, which caught fire 78 nautical miles off Beypore coast of Kerala on Monday, will be treated in a private hospital in Mangaluru.
In a press release, the Mangaluru city police said Indian Navy vessel INS Surat rescued 18 of the 22 crew of MV Wan Hai 503 vessel enroute from Colombo to Mumbai. Of the 18 crew, eight were from China, four each from Taiwan and Myanmar, and two from Indonesia.
Four crew members were missing. Five others sustained injuries and two of them were in serious condition. The INS Surat was expected to arrive with the injured and rescued crew at the New Mangaluru Port on Monday night. Arrangements were in place to provide immediate attention to the the injured, the release said.
The Indian Coast Guards said Coast Guard ships ICGS Sachet and ICGS Samudra Prahari have been deputed to augment firefighting/boundary cooling efforts. ICGS Rajdoot ship was conducting search and rescue operation for the missing crew members, the Coast Guard release stated.
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