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GMA Network
26-05-2025
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- GMA Network
Agency ensures aid to Pinoy seafarers in ship that sank off Indian coast
This photograph taken and released on May 25, 2025 by the Indian Defense Public Relations Office (PRO) of Mumbai shows a Liberian-flagged container ship off India's southern coast of Kerala. The ship was carrying hazardous cargo, the navy said after rescuing all 24 crew members safely. Indian Defense Public Relations Office of Mumbai/ AFP The manning agency of the Filipino crewmen who were rescued from a container ship that sank off the Indian coast assured Monday it will send help to the seafarers. In a report from the manning agency provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs, 20 of the 24 crew members are Filipinos. 'We are coordinating to ensure that the seafarers receive appropriate medical attention and are provided with essential clothing and humanitarian support as needed, considering they may have disembarked without personal effects,' the manning agency said. 'The Indian Coast Guard assisted 12 Pinoys, while the passing merchant vessel MV Han Yi rescued 8 Pinoys,' it added. On Sunday, a Liberian-flagged container ship with hazardous cargo sank off the coast of Kerala in the southern part of India. All 24 crew members were rescued. All are now under the custody of Indian authorities for further evaluation and processing. —Mariel Celine Serquiña/RF, GMA Integrated News
GMA Network
25-05-2025
- General
- GMA Network
Ship sinks off India coast with hazardous cargo; Pinoys, other crew rescued
This photograph taken and released on May 25, 2025 by the Indian Defense Public Relations Office (PRO) of Mumbai shows a Liberian-flagged container ship off India's southern coast of Kerala. The ship was carrying hazardous cargo, the navy said after rescuing all 24 crew members safely. Indian Defense Public Relations Office of Mumbai/ AFP BENGALURU, India — A Liberian-flagged container ship with hazardous cargo has sunk off the coast of Kerala in India's south, the navy said on Sunday after rescuing all 24 crew members safely. India's navy said the MSC ELSA 3, listed as a 184-meter (603-foot) long freight ship, which was sailing from the Indian port of Vizhinjam to Kochi, ran into trouble on Saturday and issued a distress call. Navy aircraft scrambled to the area and spotted two life rafts, with the container ship listing at a dangerous angle some 38 nautical miles southwest of Kochi. "All 24 crew members on board were rescued," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement, with the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and a navy patrol boat collecting the sailors, who were from Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and the Philippines. "The vessel went down with 640 containers, including 13 with hazardous cargo and 12 containing calcium carbide," the statement said. The Defense Ministry did not specify what was inside the containers it said were hazardous. Calcium carbide is used in the chemical industry, including for fertiliser production and steelmaking. "Given the sensitive marine ecosystem along Kerala's coast, ICG has activated full pollution response preparedness," the navy said. The vessel also contained some 370 tonnes of fuel and oil but, while the coast guard had deployed "detection systems", it said that "so far, no oil spill has been reported." — Agence France-Presse
