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Naval ships find 3rd container of explosives
The ships of Western Naval Command have located third of the six containers with explosives, on way to Afghanistan for the road jobs undertaken by Border Roads Organisation, reportedly slipped overboard from MV Eugenia.The Naval ships had located two containers on Sunday. Meanwhile, divers of the ONGC Seamac III, a multi-purpose support vessel executing the lifting operations of the containers, have also joined the Navy divers for search of the remaining three containers, an official statement said. The retrieval job is being done jointly by the Indian Navy, Coast Guard and the ONGC, while a core team consisting of officials of Intelligence Bureau, Customs, Mumbai Port Trust and Mumbai police, headed by Maharashtra Director General of Police, PS Pasricha is monitoring developments. Two containers, containing nearly 100 metric tonne explosives, dispatched on Honduran-registered merchant vessal 'MV Eugenia' were dumped in deep sea, reportedly after the ship met rough weather But due to the sensitive nature of the issue, central agencies sounded alarm bells fearing that the explosives could land in wrong hands. Earlier, the sources said the core team is monitoring the recovery, naval ships INS Nidesh, INS Alleppey and INS Ratnagiri are assisting in retrieval job along with naval deep-sea divers. MV Eugenia left Mumbai port on December 23, but reports of disappearance of the two containers reached on December 29, triggering a massive search and rescue operation. Posted by: john 2006-01-04 |
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