<p>The toll in the ONGC’s Mumbai High tragedy involving accommodation barge Paapa-305 has mounted to 49 with more bodies of the crew and oil workers being recovered from the Arabian Sea on Thursday.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, aerial reconnaissance and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations continue in the Mumbai High offshore development area by the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/barge-sinking-mva-demands-dharmendra-pradhans-resignation-987913.html" target="_blank">Barge sinking: MVA demands Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation</a></strong></p>.<p>A total of 261 persons were there on board Paapa-305 of which 186 have been rescued over the last three days in what is being described as the biggest SAR operations on India’s western seaboard.</p>.<p>“So far, we have recovered 49 bodies and a SAR operation is under way to look out for 26 missing persons,” Western Naval Command officials said.</p>
<p>The toll in the ONGC’s Mumbai High tragedy involving accommodation barge Paapa-305 has mounted to 49 with more bodies of the crew and oil workers being recovered from the Arabian Sea on Thursday.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, aerial reconnaissance and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations continue in the Mumbai High offshore development area by the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard.</p>.<p><strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/barge-sinking-mva-demands-dharmendra-pradhans-resignation-987913.html" target="_blank">Barge sinking: MVA demands Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation</a></strong></p>.<p>A total of 261 persons were there on board Paapa-305 of which 186 have been rescued over the last three days in what is being described as the biggest SAR operations on India’s western seaboard.</p>.<p>“So far, we have recovered 49 bodies and a SAR operation is under way to look out for 26 missing persons,” Western Naval Command officials said.</p>