The Kerala government today said intensified search and rescue operations are on to trace the 92 fishermen missing in high seas after Cyclone Ockhi hit the state's coast on November 29. Besides this, several fishermen had reached ports and harbours in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Lakshdweep, the State Minister for Fisheries Mercykutty told here. "Officially 92 fishermen are still missing...Rescue work is going with more intensity and by widening the area for search," she said adding, however, local people have put the number of missing persons as more than 100. According to Government Medical College sources here, as many as 41 fishermen, who were rescued, are now undergoing treatment there till this morning. She had also asserted that rescue operations would continue till every missing fishermen was brought back safely.

Source: Economic Times December 05, 2017 08:48 UTC