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16 die,
over 50 missing in Bengal trawler capsize
Satur day, October
30, 2010 08:43:34 PM, IANS
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Kolkata:
Sixteen people drowned and over 50 were feared missing after the
trawler they were travelling in capsized near the confluence of
the Bay of Bengal and river Buriganga in West Bengal Saturday,
police said.
"Sixteen bodies have been fished out. The incident occurred around
10.30 a.m. near Ghoramara island of South 24 Parganas district.
The trawler was sailing to Kakdweep from Hijli Sarif in East
Midnapore district," Additional Director General of police (Law
and Order) Surojit Kar Purokayastha said. There were over 100
people onboard.
However, Zilla Parishad president of neighbouring East Midnapore
district Ranjit Mondal said 18 people have been rescued by a
fishing boat. "The casualty figure could be as high as 40," he
said.
State Sundarban Affairs Minister Kanti Ganguly said around 50
people have been rescued.
Soon after the tragedy, senior administration and police officers
held a high-level meeting and decided to ask for divers from the
navy for rescue operations.
"Since there are no divers in Kolkata, the Eastern Naval Command
at Vishakhapatnam has been contacted," defence ministry
spokesperson Wing Commander Mahesh Upasani told IANS here.
Civil Defence Minister Srikumar Mukherjee said: "We have sent
inflatable boats there. We will conduct search operations late in
the night."
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