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Indian Navy deploys diving team for search and recovery of vehicle at Sevok

| @indiablooms | Jul 22, 2019, at 07:06 pm

New Delhi, Jul 22 (IBNS): The Indian Navy deployed a specialised diving team from Eastern Naval Command on sunday on request from the state government for search and recovery of an ill-fated vehicle that met with an accident earlier in the month near coronation bridge at Sevoke. 

The Naval Diving Team was  airlifted from Vizag by IAF aircraft, AN 32 to Bagdogra  to augment the SAR ops.

The naval team comprises of 11 divers, 02 hydrographic experts and is equipped with Side Scan Sonar and other state-of-the-art diving equipment.

The team has already commenced search in the Teeta River for the vehicle that skidded off the road and fell on the river with 03 tourists from Rajasthan and one driver from Darjeeling.

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