Bengali crew of quarantined Japan ship shouts for help from PM Modi
Yokohama/Kolkata, Feb 10 (IBNS): An Indian sailor from West Bengal, who has been stuck in a Novel Coronavirus-hit quarantined cruise ship in Japan's Yokohama port for last few days, on Monday, requested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi through an SOS video to rescue him and other Indian crew members from the ship.
In the SOS video shot inside quarantined passenger ship - Diamond Princess, crew-chef from northern West Bengal's North Dinajpur, Binay Kumar Sarkar, asked Modi to consider the matter and rescue all the Indian crew members from the ship as soon as possible, before anyone of them catches Novel Coronavirus.
"With 66 new 2019-nCoV positive cases, our ship, Diamond Princess, now has total 137 Coronavirus infected people on-board," the Indian crew member, Binay Kumar Sarkar said.
"We and the family members of 160 Indian crews on-board this ship are in panic and we are requesting the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), Government of India and PM Narendra Modi to help us and evacuate us alive from this quarantined ship as soon as possible," Sarkar added.
Since last week, cruise ship Diamond Princess with more than 3,700 passengers and crew members on-board has been quarantined near Yokohama port in Japan.
Bengali seaman of the cruise ship, Binay Kumar Sarkar, sent multiple SOS videos from the quarantined ship earlier seeking government's step to rescue all the Indian crew members from the ship.
Images from Binay Kumar Sarkar Facebook.
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