Two more bodies recovered off Karwar shore

KARWAR: On Tuesday the toll in the boat capsize had touched 12 as four more bodies have been recovered in different places off the Karwar shore. Those who have survived said that there were at least five other boats within the vicinity when they sank near the river Kali which reaches the sea but nobody came forward to help.

The body of four-year-old Kiran was found near the Lighthouse; Parashuram, 35, was found near Alvewada; Shreyas Pawaskar, 28, near Devbagh beach and the body of 14-year-old Sanjeevini was found near the Kurumgad island. Two more bodies have not been recovered yet.

Ships belonging to the Navy (INS Tilanchang) and Coast Guard (ICGS-Amartya), a Dornier plane and helicopters belonging to the Navy and Coast Guard were pressed into service. The helicopters had located the bodies while searching along the shore between Ankola and Goa.

The remains of Nilesh Pednekar who had lost his life after saving three people including his wife Neha who has been shifted to Mumbai. Nilesh owned a hotel business in Goregaon Mumbai had come for the Narasimha jatra in Kurmagad Island. The boat sank on its way back from Kurmagad.

Karwar MLA Roopali Naik and the leader of fishermen Ganpati Ulvekar who were also returning from the island at the time the boat was sinking took eight people on board. Two of them died soon after. Naik said that she contacted senior officials to keep ambulances ready even as she ferried the victims. But as she alighted at Sagara Darshan, she had to fight with the officials as no arrangements had been made.