Search-and-rescue operations persevering with after an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry with extra 100 passengers.
At the very least 13 individuals died when an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry which then capsized off the coast of economic capital Mumbai, officers have mentioned.
Greater than 100 individuals have been rescued, Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis mentioned on Wednesday.
The navy mentioned search-and-rescue efforts had been persevering with.
“An Indian Navy craft misplaced management whereas enterprise engine trials in Mumbai Harbour resulting from engine malfunction. In consequence, the boat collided with a passenger ferry which subsequently capsized,” the navy mentioned in an announcement on X.
“I pay my heartfelt tributes to those that died on this accident”, Fadnavis mentioned, including that “we share the grief of their households”.
The 13 useless included one naval servicemember and two representatives of an tools producer participating within the exams, the navy mentioned.
Native TV channels confirmed a ship carrying at the very least 5 individuals hitting the passenger automobile, inflicting the accident.
“The speedboat crashed into our boat and water began getting into our boat and it overturned. The driving force requested us to put on lifejackets,” a passenger on board the vessel advised ABP Majha information channel.
“I swam for quarter-hour earlier than I used to be rescued by one other boat,” mentioned the passenger, who didn’t establish himself.
“The boat mishap in Mumbai is saddening. Condolences to the bereaved households,” India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in a publish on X late on Wednesday.
Modi additionally introduced an ex gratia cost of 200,000 rupees ($2,356.63) from the Prime Minister’s Nationwide Reduction Fund for the following of kin of every deceased within the boat accident and that the injured could be given 50,000 rupees.
The privately owned passenger boat, referred to as Neelkamal, was heading in direction of the Elephanta caves, a well-liked vacationer vacation spot off the coast of Mumbai, when it capsized, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company mentioned.
The caves, which see a gradual stream of vacationers all year long, are a UNESCO heritage web site and had been constructed within the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
Boats from the Gateway of India, Mumbai’s southernmost level, make common journeys to ferry vacationers to the location, an hour away.
