Eritrea’s ship ‘DenDen’ sinks in Mangalore, India- Video

Daijiworld News service, Saturday, June 23, 2007:

Mangalore: As feared earlier, the West African ship "DenDen" which was caught in the middle of the sea near Tannir Bavi here has at last been completely swallowed by hungry sea. All the efforts to pull the ship to the shore failed as ship sunk in front the eyes of thousands gathered by the spot.

As reported earlier out of the total 24 persons in the ship 2 persons have already died and 3 are in serious condition while 14 more have been rescued. But as of now 5 persons are still missing and they have not been spotted after they jumped into the sea when it sunk.

'DenDen' ship from Eastern African country Eritrea was on its way to Dubai after loading furnace oil from KISKO on Tuesday June 19. But no sooner it left the shore, a technical snag was reported. As a result ship was anchored in the sea, a few nautical miles away from NMPT. Abraham Kuhan, a native of Ghana who is the cpatain of the ship declined technical help saying that they were able to set the snag right.

But the ship moved towards Tannir Bavi shores owing to storm on Friday June 23 night and submerged in the sea. There were 3 Pakistanis, 16 Eritreans, 2 each from Sudan, Ghana and one from Sri Lanka.

The present situation is that people are thronging in thousands to the shore. Local fishermen have been of great help since they took initiative to rescue the trapped crew of the ship. Though the names of all of them are not available sources confirmed that Tamrat, Yakoob, Immanuel, Ilias, Abraham Kuhan and Birhane were among the crew.