Bhavnagar: Three people are feared dead as a tug boat on which they were aboard drowned after a blast in it in the gulf of Cambay at around 15 nautical miles from Ghogha coast in Bhavanagar district of Gujarat, police said.

A total of 7 crew members were on board the tug boat Varun. 4 of them were somehow rescued while 3 others who drowned were still missing, a marine police official said.

The boat reportedly had taken diesel cans for refueling of a bigger ship.

The detailed investigation of the incident was on.

Two tugs were sent for rescue mission from Ghogha.

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