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US Navy rescues 25 Indians

By Suman Guha Mozumder in New York
May 13, 2005 09:38 IST
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A US Navy ship on Thursday rescued 27 people, including 25 Indians, from the Northern Arabian Gulf after a fire on their vessel forced them to jump into the sea.

The US Central Command said all those rescued were in good health.

"We are not sure at this hour whether those rescued are still on board the US Navy destroyer Mustin or had already been brought ashore," Capt. Alison Salerno, a spokesperson for the US Central Command, told rediff.com over telephone from Florida.

Salerno could not say where the Panamanian flagged vessel Olympias was coming from or where it was headed.

When crewmembers from the destroyer arrived on the scene, they found the Olympias' superstructure burning and 27 people from the vessel hanging on to a life raft.

The Central Command said Mustin, which is currently conducting maritime security operations in the area, responded after receiving word of the distressed vessel from USS Carl Vinson, which is also on similar mission in the area.

Mustin sailors safely transferred 25 Indians, a Nepalese and one Sri Lankan to the destroyer's rigid-hull inflatable boats.

The cause of the fire, Salerno said, has not been immediately determined.

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