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A trawler capsized disconnected the Goa seashore successful the wee hours of Sunday (September 28, 2025), prompting authorities to motorboat a rescue cognition pursuing which each 27 fishermen connected committee were aboriginal safely brought to the shore, constabulary said.
The incidental took spot astatine astir 1.30 americium disconnected Mobor formation successful South Goa district, a elder constabulary authoritative said.
The trawler had 27 fishermen who called the constabulary power country for help.
A squad of coastal police, on with State-appointed lifeguards, and section fishermen, rushed for help, the constabulary said.
All the fishermen were brought to the enactment aboriginal connected Sunday (September 28) with the assistance of jet-skis utilized by lifeguards and locals who assisted successful the rescue operation.
"They are harmless and determination was nary aesculapian attraction required for them," the authoritative said.
The section fishermen who helped successful the rescue enactment were led by Francis Fernandes, popularly known arsenic Pele, who runs a h2o sports concern successful South Goa and changeable into the limelight immoderate years backmost erstwhile helium was seen showing accepted sportfishing techniques to cricket fable Sachin Tendulkar.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a 'yellow alert', predicting dense rains successful Goa till October 1, and appealed to the fishermen not to task successful the sea.
