The Indian Navy rescued 146 people on board a barge that went adrift in the Arabia Sea near Mumbai hours before a very severe cyclonic storm, Tauktae made landfall on the Gujarat coast, an official said on Tuesday.
The Navy had deployed three of its frontline warships, INS Kolkata, INS Kochi and INS Talwar after receiving messages to rescue 410 people on board two barges off the Mumbai coast on Monday.
‘The Search and Rescue (SAR) operations continued throughout the night and a total of 146 persons from Barge P305 have been rescued till 6 am on Tuesday’, the official said.
The Navy on Tuesday morning also deployed the P-8I long-range, multimission maritime patrol aircraft to join the search and rescue operations, the official said.
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