Mangaluru, April 13, 2021: Three fishermen have lost their lives while six others are missing after a fishing boat with 14 people on board capsized in the sea about 43 nautical miles of the old port of Mangaluru on April 13, Tuesday.
Sources revealed that the fishing boat named Rabha from Beypore in Kozhikode in Kerala was hit by a ship resulting in the mishap. The boat had ventured into fishing on Sunday.
Those in the boat were from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. Five of them managed to swim ashore. The Indian Coast Guard has deployed ICG Ships and aircraft in its mission to search for the missing fishermen.