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Distress call from stranded ship Samho Jasper off Port Rashid

Sailors on board a third stranded ship anchored off Port Rashid are running out of rations and medicines, Khaleej Times Online reports. Sources on Sunday said the condition of the crew on the Samho Jasper was fast deteriorating. Food and fuel supply on the ship can last only a week. Medicines have run out, while communication with the outside world has been cut. Khaleej Times received a call via satellite phone from the ship seeking urgent help. The man did not give his name before the line went dead. Several efforts to contact him were in vain. The condition of some of the 21 men on the Panamanian-flagged tanker was ‘very appalling’, said Captain Atta-ur-Rahman, of the distressed tanker’s sister ship, the Samho Crown. Samho Crown was rescued last month, thanks to the efforts of this newspaper, which highlighted the plight of its crew. Sailors of a second ship, the Samho Dream, are also out of troubled waters. Atta-ur-Rahman said some crew members of the Jasper are ‘mentally disturbed’ as they had not been not paid their salaries for six months. ‘‘Most of the crew members have completed their contracts and just want to go home,’’ he said