Barge P305 tragedy: kin of deceased stage protest
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Demanding compensation and justice, families of 86 people, who lost their lives after barge P305 and tugboat, Varaprada, sank during Cyclone Tauktae, staged a protest on Monday outside the office of Afcons Infrastructure, which was providing its services to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited. “That was not an accident. The company was well aware of the incoming cyclone but did not take any precaution to safeguard its employees resulting in the death of 86 people. Since then, the matter of compensation has been hanging in midair. Neither ONGC nor Afcons has offered compensation to the families of the deceased,” Manoj Yadav, general secretary, Forward Semen’s Union of India (FSUI), said.
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