A search operation is below method to find 16 lacking crew members, 13 of whom are Indian, after an oil tanker capsized off the coast of Oman.
An Indian official instructed the BBC that the international ministry was co-ordinating the operation with Oman’s maritime authorities.
Oman officers mentioned late on Monday that the oil tanker – Status Falcon – had capsized 25 nautical miles southeast of its Ras Madrakah peninsula.
Three of the 16 lacking crew members are Sri Lankan.
The Comoros-flagged vessel was on its method to the port of Aden in Yemen when it capsized.
India’s navy has joined the search and rescue operations, the Indian official instructed the BBC.
The official added that the vessel had transmitted a misery name round 22:00 native time [16:30GMT] on Sunday.
Officers from Oman’s Maritime Safety Centre instructed Reuters information company on Tuesday that the vessel remained “submerged, inverted” however did not affirm if it had stabilised.
Oman’s defence ministry, which runs the centre, didn’t reply to the BBC’s questions on whether or not the contents of the tanker had spilled into the ocean.
The 117.4m-long tanker was in-built 2007, in line with marinetraffic.com. The world the ship capsized in falls within the province of Duqm in Oman, the place the nation has an enormous industrial port.
Indians kind a majority of worldwide maritime workforce and they’re typically the victims of accidents or piracy.
Seventeen Indian crew members of the MSC Aries, a business ship with hyperlinks to Israel, have been caught when Iranian troops seized the vessel in April. They have been launched after negotiations between India and Iran.
In 2022, 16 Indian crew members of a ship have been held within the custody of Equatorial Guinea’s navy for 9 months.
