The Indian Navy mentioned 9 crew members from MV Falcon Status (8 Indians and a Sri Lankan) ‘have been recovered alive through the search and rescue operations’. The search and rescue operations to seek out the remaining crew members will proceed within the space, it mentioned.
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MUSCAT: Search groups on Wednesday rescued 9 crew members and recovered a physique of an Indian from an oil tanker that capsized off the coast of Oman earlier this week, the gulf state’s maritime company mentioned.

The Comorian-flagged MV Status Falcon overturned and sank within the Arabian Sea late on Monday night time with 13 Indian and three Sri Lankan nationals aboard.

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“Search and rescue operations have efficiently saved 9 crew members of the oil tanker Status Falcon, all discovered alive,” Oman’s Maritime Safety Centre mentioned in a publish on X.

“Tragically, one crew member was discovered deceased. The search-and-rescue operations proceed for the remaining members of the vessel’s crew.”

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An Indian navy vessel had rescued the 9 crew after an in a single day search across the vessel’s final location, close to the Omani port city of Duqm.

Warship INS Teg was diverted from its operations within the space to help for a search-and-rescue operation hampered by “tough seas and robust winds”, an Indian navy assertion mentioned.

The eight Indians and one Sri Lankan had been rescued by the vessel within the “difficult climate circumstances”, it added.

An extended-range P8I naval reconnaissance plane was aiding within the persevering with search efforts for the remaining six crew members nonetheless unaccounted for, the assertion mentioned.

The vessel had been headed for the Yemeni port metropolis of Aden, in response to delivery web site marinetraffic.com.

Oman’s Maritime Safety Centre has not specified the reason for the capsize.

It was additionally unclear whether or not the vessel was carrying any cargo on the time it bumped into misery.