Three Kutchi labourers found dead on Chinese ship off Mundra

Three labourers were found dead on a Chinese ship which had arrived at Mundra port in Kutch district of Gujarat for delivering a consignment of coal. A case has been registered and investigations are underway.

It seems due that to negligence of the operation department of ship, the labourers Bawan Shrengar, Motisingh Sodha and Devsai Parmar had got locked in a chamber and later died of suffocation, according to the police.

After unloading coal at Mundra port, the ship RBD Sangai had begun its onward journey towards Africa and traveled almost 50 kilometre when the contractor at the port noticed that three of his labourers were missing, police said.

A communication was immediately sent to the ship crew informing them about the incident. They were asked to check for the missing labourers and during the checking they found bodies of the three labourers in a chamber, they said.

A tug (small vessel) was sent to the ship and bodies of the three labourers were brought back to Mundra port.