The Director of the Community Police Department at Sharjah Police, Brigadier Ali Saif Al -Nandas, said that rescue teams are still looking for two missing, the weather that prevailed last weekend in a carrier loaded with petroleum material And the accident led to the death of three people and the injury of a number of those on board with various injuries, who were subsequently transferred to the hospital for treatment.
He added that “in the wake of a report received to the Central Operations Room in Sharjah Police, it is reported that the accident occurred, a number of Al -Ansad, Ambulance and Maritime Rescue patrols, and teams from the Community Police Department and the Emirates Red Crescent Authority moved to the site of the accident.”
He continued, “Five people who were on board were found on board, including two people with slight injuries and injuries, and they were taken to the hospital for treatment, while the bodies of three people were recovered that were found to have died drowning after they fell in the sea below the ship, while the rescue teams continued Searching for four other people that turned out to have been among the ship’s passengers, and the water washed away from it. He added, “Through searches, the teams managed to save two people and the search is still underway for others from the 12 -people ship, all of them of Indian nationality.”
Initial investigations indicated that the ship was on its way to one of the state’s ports through territorial waters when it pushed it to the strong winds towards the coast, which led to its strong impact on the rocky barrier at the broken waves and drowned it completely.
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