Chennai: The bodies of two more fishermen who lost their lives after being caught in the cyclone were recovered the day before yesterday. On Oct. 29, from the Chennai Kasimedu fishing harbor, 9 fishermen, including boat operator Surya, went deep-sea fishing in a mechanized boat owned by Selvazhagan.
While they were fishing near Nizampatnam in Andhra Pradesh, they anchored the mechanized boat at Nizampatnam harbor as a precaution due to the cyclone warning. Later, when they went back out to sea to fish, the engine of the mechanized boat broke down in the middle of the sea.
Regarding this, information was conveyed via wireless at around 3:30 a.m. on the 3rd to another motorboat nearby. After that, contact could not be established with those 9 fishermen.
Meanwhile, the bodies of 7 fishermen washed ashore one after another near Ongole in Andhra Pradesh. These were recovered, and it was confirmed that they were the bodies of the missing Tamil Nadu fishermen.
Following this, the bodies of the 7 people — Mohan, Surya, Murugan, Vijayakanth, Kuppusamy, Kuppan, and Aravind — were identified and handed over to their relatives.
However, since no information was available about the condition of the remaining two fishermen, the Coast Guard intensified the search for them. Meanwhile, the bodies of two more fishermen washed ashore on the Latchumipuram beach near Kothapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Following this, officials who recovered the bodies conducted an investigation and confirmed that they were those of the missing fishermen, Rajesh and Narayanan.
Subsequently, the bodies of the two were sent to Chennai by ambulance after the postmortem and handed over to their relatives. It is noteworthy that the 9 fishermen who went fishing from Chennai Kasimedu and went missing in the Andhra sea area have now been recovered as bodies.
