Английская Википедия:2021 Madagascar shipwreck
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox disaster On 20 December 2021, a cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers sank off the northeast coast of Madagascar. A hole in the hull caused the engine room to flood, leaving the vessel vulnerable to wave action. At least 85 people died during the accident.
Wreck
The Francia was a Шаблон:Convert wooden vessel that was not authorized to carry passengers.[1] The ship had illegally taken on 130 passengers for a journey from Antanambe (which is not registered as an official port) to Soanierana Ivongo, a journey of around Шаблон:Convert.[1][2][3] Including crew, 138 people were on board. The vessel sank late on 20 December 2021 after its engine room was flooded, leaving it exposed to the action of waves.[4] The flooding was caused by a hole in the ship's hull.[3]
Aftermath
Helicopter crash
Malagasy police minister Serge Gellé was flown to the site of the shipwreck on 21 December.[5] His helicopter crashed and he was one of two surviving passengers (the other was Chief Warrant Officer Jimmy Laitsara).[6] The survivors separately reached land at Mahambo. Gellé used a seat from the helicopter as a flotation device during his twelve-hour overnight swim to safety.[5][7] Gellé swam to within Шаблон:Convert of the shore, but the waves prevented him from reaching land. He was spotted by a fisherman, whose canoe was too small to accommodate them both. The fisherman returned two hours later with a larger canoe and brought Gellé to dry land.[1] The body of one of the helicopter's occupants, a police colonel, was later recovered; the pilot remains missing.[8]
A separate helicopter carried the prime minister, Christian Ntsay, and minister of national defence, General Léon Richard Rakotonirina, to the site of the shipwreck.[9]
Responses
A force of Malagasy gendarmes was sent to the site and an investigation into the sinking was started by the Malagasy government.[10] Three vessels from the Madagascar Navy and maritime agency assisted in the search for survivors.[3] By 22 December, 64 bodies had been recovered, with around 24 people missing and around 50 survivors rescued.[2][4] The following day the Madagascan Maritime and Port Agency announced that the confirmed death toll had increased to 85, with three persons missing.[1][7][11]
President Andry Rajoelina paid tribute to those who died in the shipwreck and helicopter crash.[7] The graveyard of Soanierana-Ivongo was too small to accommodate all the bodies recovered, so some were sent to nearby villages for burial.[1]
References
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- December 2021 crimes in Africa
- Maritime incidents in 2021
- Shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
- Transport disasters in Madagascar
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