IN PICS | Rescue Operation Conducted By Indian Navy Ships On Wednesday; 38 Still Reported Missing

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Visuals from INS Kochi which is conducting rescue operation along with INS Kolkata and INS Talwar of personnel from the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) after Barge P305 went adrift and subsequently sunk at Bombay High. (Image Source: PTI)

The Navy had deployed three of its frontline warships after receiving messages to rescue 410 people on board two barges off the Mumbai coast. Till 11 pm on Monday, the Navy had managed to rescue a total of 60 persons from Barge P305. (Image Source: PTI)

Indian Navy has found 37 bodies in the Arabian sea till now. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas announced a high-level inquiry into “lapses and gaps” in the system. (Image Source: PTI)

INS Kochi and INS Kolkata which rescued survivors and carried the dead bodies of their teammates sailed out again on Wednesday evening to look for the other members. (Image Source: PTI)

In a statement, the ministry said, “Several vessels of ONGC with more than 600 people on board were stranded in offshore areas during Cyclone Tauktae. The stranding, drifting and subsequent events have led to loss of several lives.”(Image Source: PTI)

The Afcons Infrastructure Ltd (AIL), which had contracted the sunken barge, expressed regrets over the fatalities in the high seas and said its immediate focus is to locate and rescue the remaining missing personnel on priority. Although, when ABP asked questions as to why despite warning the personnel weren't back on shore they didn't have answers. (Image Source: PTI)

Workmen rescued from the barge P305 narrated their horrifying experience, "It was a horrific situation on the barge. I had not thought I would survive. But I swam for seven to eight hours with the determination to stay alive and was rescued by the Navy," workman Manoj Gite told reporters in Mumbai, PTI reported. (Image Source: PTI)

As the toll in the Arabian Sea barge tragedy rose to 37, Maharashtra's ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies on Thursday demanded that Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan must be held accountable and should quit over the loss of precious human lives. (Image Source: PTI)