SINGAPORE: A search and rescue operation has been
launched after a lorry rolled off a barge into the seas off Pasir
Panjang Terminal on Saturday.
At about 2.45pm, the Maritime and Port Authority of
Singapore (MPA) received a distress call about the
incident.
The driver, a 37-year-old Singaporean, was reported
to be in the lorry when it rolled into the sea.
The lorry was being transported by the barge from Pulau Sebarok to
Sungai Pandan when the incident happened. The barge was being towed
by a tugboat.
The MPA is coordinating the search and rescue operation, involving
three MPA craft and two Police Coast Guard craft.
The Naval Diving Unit from the Singapore Armed Forces and the
Hydrographic Department of MPA are trying to locate the sunken
lorry and the missing man.
- CNA/ir
