Rescued Indonesian sailors in their temporary accommodation. (Source: VNA)
Soc Trang (VNA) – The border guard force in southern Soc Trang province rescued three Indonesiansailors on a drifting barge offshore on March 4.
The three Indonesiannationals are Rahmat Syukur Siregar, 24, Juli Yenki Siahaan, 34, and ReifaldiEstendi Bisa, 20.
At around 9 amon March 4, the Bai Gia border guard station was alerted by fishermen about avessel drifting around five nautical miles off the My Thanh river mouth,according to Captain Nguyen Thanh Dung, deputy chief of the Bai Gia borderguard station.
The border guardforce sent a rescue team to the site and towed the barge, coded LL2701 with thethree Indonesian sailors on board, to land.
Later the same day,the sailors were transferred to the care of the Can Tho branch of Vietnam OceanShipping Agency (VOSA), in order to return them to their ship.
According to VOSACan Tho, the barge LL2701 and its tow ship was travelling from Phnom Penh,Cambodia to Thailand via the Can Tho port.
♊ While the shipand the barge was leaving the Can Tho port on March 2 night, the tow rope broke.The ship’s captain sent the three sailors to the barge to try to anchor, but bigwaves and strong wind pushed the barge away from the ship.-VNA
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Rescued Indonesian sailors in their temporary accommodation. (Source: VNA)
