MANGALURU
: The coastal security police and local
fishermen
who continued their search for the second day have retrieved the bodies of two fishermen identified as Chinthan and Mohammed Hassainar, on Wednesday.
The search for two more
missing fishermen
is on. According to police, a body was found in the sea, a few metres away from the accident spot on Wednesday morning and is being shifted to a mortuary.
On Tuesday bodies of Preetham, 28, and Panduranga Suvarna, 58, residents of Bokkapatna were found. So far local fishermen have managed to rescue 19 fishermen, following a
boat capsize off
Mangaluru coast
.
The boat ‘Shreeraksha’ with 25 fishermen onboard capsized due to fish catch overload coupled with turmoil in the sea and heavy wind. Shreeraksha, a deep-sea fishing boat registered in 2013, had sailed out from Mangaluru fishing harbour on Monday early morning and was expected to return on Tuesday early morning. The boat had close to 20 tons of fish catch.
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