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Chinese vessel wreckage off missile test site
Kendrapara, June 14: Forest personnel have stumbled upon the wreckage of a Chinese vessel close to the Wheelers Island missile test range in Orissas Kendrapara, triggering security concerns.
Jewn Jyi Rong, badly damaged and almost split in two, has come under the security scanner as the ship is of Chinese make and has been sighted in the vicinity of the Defence Research and Development Organisations (DRDO) missile test centre.
Forest personnel are keeping round-the-clock watch on the wreckage. The DRDO and the coast guard have been alerted, said a forest official.
Coast guard commandant (Paradip) Saroj Kumar Sahu said a Chinese vessel had sunk off Sri Lankas coast and he believed its wreckage could have drifted up the Bay of Bengal to the Orissa coast.
It has been ascertained that a Chinese ship sank off Sri Lankas eastern coast about six months ago. Since then, there had been no trace of that vessel. We believe the debris is of that particular ship. We will inspect it.
The wreckage is about 80 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, officials said, adding that portions of it are still submerged. The mass of metal is learnt to have floated to the site, known as the Gahirmatha coast, about a week back but had apparently gone unnoticed by officials.
Some residents of Pravati village nearby tried to sift through the wreckage in the hope of retrieving articles before forest officials spotted it yesterday and informed the DRDO and the coast guard (Paradip) and sought security cover from the polices marine wing.
We chanced upon the wreckage during a patrol yesterday. It was found firmly anchored along the coast, though it had suffered extensive damage. The vessel may have hit an underwater rock, causing it to capsize. It also had burn marks, divisional forest officer Manoj Kumar Mahapatra said.
Kendrapara, June 14: Forest personnel have stumbled upon the wreckage of a Chinese vessel close to the Wheelers Island missile test range in Orissas Kendrapara, triggering security concerns.
Jewn Jyi Rong, badly damaged and almost split in two, has come under the security scanner as the ship is of Chinese make and has been sighted in the vicinity of the Defence Research and Development Organisations (DRDO) missile test centre.
Forest personnel are keeping round-the-clock watch on the wreckage. The DRDO and the coast guard have been alerted, said a forest official.
Coast guard commandant (Paradip) Saroj Kumar Sahu said a Chinese vessel had sunk off Sri Lankas coast and he believed its wreckage could have drifted up the Bay of Bengal to the Orissa coast.
It has been ascertained that a Chinese ship sank off Sri Lankas eastern coast about six months ago. Since then, there had been no trace of that vessel. We believe the debris is of that particular ship. We will inspect it.
The wreckage is about 80 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, officials said, adding that portions of it are still submerged. The mass of metal is learnt to have floated to the site, known as the Gahirmatha coast, about a week back but had apparently gone unnoticed by officials.
Some residents of Pravati village nearby tried to sift through the wreckage in the hope of retrieving articles before forest officials spotted it yesterday and informed the DRDO and the coast guard (Paradip) and sought security cover from the polices marine wing.
We chanced upon the wreckage during a patrol yesterday. It was found firmly anchored along the coast, though it had suffered extensive damage. The vessel may have hit an underwater rock, causing it to capsize. It also had burn marks, divisional forest officer Manoj Kumar Mahapatra said.
