Summary
About 60 persons have been rescued and search is on for 200 others on board an accommodation barge, Papaa 305, deployed by state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation that went adrift off the Mumbai coast Monday evening. The barge was one of the three vessels and a drillship that went adrift after their moorings snapped in the ferocity of cyclone Tuktae, which pushed up wind speed to reach 150-180 km.
INS Kochi and INS Kolkata of the Indian Navy, a tug boat of Afcons and one vessel of ONGC have rushed to the area for search and rescue, ONGC said in a statement.
But the extremely rough sea, with 6-8 metre-high waves, is making the task ......