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Coast Guard vessel ramming Goa fishing trawler being probed

The Indian Coast Guard has initiated a Board of Inquiry in the accident involving its offshore patrol vessel and a fishing trawler off Goa coast which left one fishermen dead and five missing yesterday. "The ship involved in the accident was our vessel ICGS Vaibhav. We have initiated a Board of Inquiry," Indian Coast Guard Goa region commander S D Bhanot told PTI today. "Two naval ships have been conducting search and rescue operations since yesterday. They have recovered one body," Bhanot said, adding, five are still missing. A fishing trawler called 'Sea Messiah', which had left South Goa's Cutbona jetty, had capsized off 13 nautical miles from Agonda beach in Canacona taluka yesterday at 4.30 am. The trawler had 23 crew members on board, of which the body of one was found in the rescue operation, while four are still missing. http://zeenews.india.com/news/goa/coast-guard-vessel-ramming-goa-fishing-trawler-being-probed_844838.html