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Monday, October 14, 2024

One dead as fishing vessel sinks, 10 others missing

Ten persons on board a fishing vessel, Comforter 2, which sunk last Friday offshore Elmina are still missing.

Meanwhile, the body of one person believed to a Chinese who is the captain of the vessel has been retrieved from the vessel with over 20 sailors of both Ghanaian and Chinese nationality
aboard.

The Western Regional Director of the Fisheries Commission, Joseph Yeboah, confirmed to Citi News that 14 have been rescued with 10 more still missing.

ā€œThe accident happened on Friday afternoon and some two of the sailors managed to swim till they were picked up by a sister vessel around 10 pm.ā€

ā€œThe vessel went back to the incident place to search and picked some three more sailors plus the Captain, who was then dead. Nine others were picked up by a canoe and were sent to Elmina and later went to Tema. In all, 15 sailors have been recovered with the Captain dead and others injured. There are 10 more sailors still been searched for nowā€œ, he said.

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