The SAR Team for the Kupang Search and Rescue Office of East Nusa Tenggara Province deployed 51 people to evacuate 167 passengers and crew from the Express Cantika 77 Fast Ship that caught fire in the waters of Naikliu, Kupang Regency, Monday, October 24.
"The SAR team from the Kupang Basarnas Office has deployed to the scene to help carry out rescue efforts for passengers and 10 crew members," said Kupang Class A Search and Rescue Office Head I Putu Sudayana in Kupang, quoted from Antara.
The SAR team is currently at the scene and is in the process of evacuating both passengers and crew members. According to the manifest data received by Basarnas Kupang, the number of passengers and crew members on the ship who experienced this fate reached 177 people consisting of 167 passengers and 10 crew members.
He said the SAR team that was moving quickly from Kupang consisted of nine SAR teams using RIB 10 Kupang and 41 SAR teams using the Antareja State Ship.
"The rescue process for the passengers and crew members is still ongoing," said I Putu Sudayana.
The SAR team from Basarnas Kupang has evacuated several passengers including a toddler and his mother who are adrift off the coast of the waters of Naikliu.
The SAR team swiftly evacuated these two victims to a rescue boat. The first evacuation was carried out on a toddler who was closely held by one of the SAR personnel. While the mother was holding the boat to see their child being evacuated first.
It is known that the expressing fast ship Cantika 77 caught fire off the coast of Timor Island near Batek Island at around 14.00 WITA while on a voyage from Kupang to Kalabahi, Alor Regency.
The ship caught fire and then turned around to the nearest port, namely in Naikliu, Kupang Regency to make rescue efforts.
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