India’s Coast Guard and Navy continued search-and-rescue operations off \u200bthe eastern coast on Sunday after a Panama-flagged \u200ccargo vessel carrying 24 crew sank, with two Chinese nationals rescued, a senior official said.<\/p>\n
The two rescued Chinese seafarers said \u200bthe vessel developed a list on Friday and \u200bsank within eight minutes, forcing the crew to abandon \u2060the ship, Shyam Jagannathan, director general of India’s Maritime Administration, \u200btold\u00a0Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n Jagannathan said the chances of finding survivors generally fall \u200bsharply after 12 hours, but rescuers were continuing the search.<\/p>\n Twenty-two crew members remain missing from the Ocean Winner, including 18 Chinese \u200bnationals, three Myanmar nationals and one Bangladeshi, according to \u200bthe Indian Coast Guard.<\/p>\n The Indian Navy is closely coordinating with the \u200cCoast \u2060Guard to locate the remaining crew, the Navy said in a post on X.<\/p>\n The Coast Guard has sent two vessels from Sri Vijaya Puram, formerly known as \u200bPort Blair, for \u200bthe search-and-rescue \u2060operation, a Coast Guard spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The Ocean Winner was carrying iron ore bound for \u200bChina after departing from India’s eastern Paradip \u200bport on \u2060Friday, according to an initial report prepared from India’s Maritime Administration.<\/p>\n The cargo ship sank about 240 nautical miles from \u2060the \u200bport, according to government sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India’s Coast Guard and Navy continued search-and-rescue operations off \u200bthe eastern coast on Sunday after a Panama-flagged \u200ccargo vessel carrying 24 crew sank, with two Chinese nationals rescued, a senior official said. The two rescued Chinese seafarers said \u200bthe vessel developed a list on Friday and \u200bsank within eight minutes, forcing the crew to abandon …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantimesusa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}