Mumbai Boat Accident: Man and Child Still Missing After Passenger Ferry-Navy Craft Collision off Coast Near Gateway of India; Search Operation Underway
The two missing persons have been identified as 43-year-old Hansraj Bhati and seven-year-old Johan Mohammad Nisar Ahmed Pathan, the police said. A search operation was underway with help of the Navy and Coast Guard, they said.
Mumbai, December 19: Two passengers, a man and a child, were still missing a day after a Navy craft carrying out engine trials rammed into their ferry off Mumbai coast, police said on Thursday.
Of the 113 persons on board both the vessels, 13 died and 98, including two injured, were rescued, they said. Mumbai Boat Accident: 2 Including Boy Still Missing As Navy, Coast Guard Intensify Search in Arabian Sea off Gateway of India.
The two missing persons have been identified as 43-year-old Hansraj Bhati and seven-year-old Johan Mohammad Nisar Ahmed Pathan, the police said. A search operation was underway with help of the Navy and Coast Guard, they said. Mumbai Boat Crash: PM Narendra Modi Condoles Loss of Lives Following Collision Between Indian Navy Boat and Passenger Ferry Neelkamal Near Gateway of India; Announces INR 2 Lakh Aid.
Thirteen persons, including a Navy personnel and two contractual naval employees, were killed when the Navy craft dashed against the passenger ferry 'Neel Kamal', carrying more than 100 passengers from the Gateway of India to the Elephanta Island, on Wednesday afternoon.