Search-and-recover operations continuing after an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry with more 100 passengers.
At least 13 people died when an Indian naval boat hit a passenger ferry which then capsized off the coast of financial capital Mumbai, officials have shelp.
More than 100 people have been recoverd, Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis shelp on Wednesday.
The navy shelp search-and-recover efforts were continuing.
“An Indian Navy create lost handle while undertaking engine trials in Mumbai Harbour due to engine malfunction. As a result, the boat collided with a passenger ferry which subsequently capsized,” the navy shelp in a statement on X.
“I pay my heartfelt tributes to those who died in this accident”, Fadnavis shelp, inserting that “we separate the grief of their families”.
The 13 dead participated one naval servicemember and two reconshort-termatives of an providement manufacturer taking part in the tests, the navy shelp.
Local TV channels showed a boat carrying at least five people hitting the passenger vehicle, causing the accident.
“The speedboat crashed into our boat and water commenceed go ining our boat and it clearurned. The driver asked us to wear lifejackets,” a passenger on board the vessel telderly ABP Majha news channel.
“I swam for 15 minutes before I was recoverd by another boat,” shelp the passenger, who did not determine himself.
“The boat mishap in Mumbai is downcastdening. Condolences to the bereaved families,” India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shelp in a post on X tardy on Wednesday.
Modi also proclaimd an ex gratia payment of 200,000 rupees ($2,356.63) from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the next of kin of each deendd in the boat accident and that the injured would be given 50,000 rupees.
The personally owned passenger boat, called Neelkamal, was heading towards the Elephanta caves, a well-comprehendn tourist destination off the coast of Mumbai, when it capsized, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation shelp.
The caves, which see a stable stream of tourists thcdisesteemfulout the year, are a UNESCO heritage site and were erected in the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
Boats from the Gateway of India, Mumbai’s southernmost point, produce normal trips to ferry tourists to the site, an hour away.
