Cyclone Tauktae: 66 bodies recovered from Barge P305; search ops continue
The Mumbai Police in a Saturday updated that as many as 66 bodies have so far been recovered from the Arabian Sea days after the Barge P305 sank off the Mumbai coast during Cyclone Tauktae, news agency ANI reported.
Search and rescue operations continue. Underwater search for wreckage of Barge P305 and Tug Varaprada using specialized teams & equipment in progress, the police said.
On Saturday morning, in a statement, police said several bodies were quite decomposed and were difficult to identify. It arranged for DNA sampling of the relatives to match with the bodies.
Mumbai Police has also sent a request to the Forensic Laboratory for 40 DNA sampling kits for this purpose.
