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Cyclone Tauktae: 26 dead, 49 still missing from barge P305; search and rescue operations underway Rescued crew members from the sunken offshore barge P305 look out disembark the INS Kochi naval ship after arriving in Mumbai on May 19, 2021 following Cyclone Tauktae landfall on Indias west coast with powerful winds and driving rain, leaving at least 33 people dead and almost 89 missing. (Photo by AFP) Mumbai: After leading a massive search operation, INS Kochi returned to Mumbai on Wednesday morning with 125 survivors of the barge mishap, who looked visibly jaded and worn out after the trauma...

Commodore MK Jha said visibility at sea was negligible -- at the most a kilometre. New Delhi: "We had to save lives while making sure we saved our own" -- that summed up the Indian Navy's challenge over the past many hours as it sailed right into the wild arms of a once-in-a-decade cyclonic storm to rescue hundreds stranded on barges, oil rigs, and other vessels along the western coast of India. By Monday evening Cyclone Tauktae had sunk one barge P-305 and run aground another, Gal Constructor, together accounting for 410 workers.   The barges had gone adrift earlier under the furious migh...