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Sunken vehicle recovered off UAE's Al Jazeera Al Hamra shores
The police's Marine and Rescue Unit on Monday recovered a heavy vehicle which sank off Al Jazeera Al Hamra shores last Friday.
- By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:21 August 18, 2008
Ras Al Khaimah: The police's Marine and Rescue Unit on Monday recovered a heavy vehicle which sank off Al Jazeera Al Hamra shores last Friday.
Lieutenant Yousef Al Mansouri, who heads the unit, said the vehicle slipped and fell into the water sinking at least seven metres. The vehicle slipped while labourers were unloading at a construction site.
The police received a report from the company about the heavy vehicle and the unit's divers in collaboration with their counterparts from the frontier and coastguards scanned the area to ensure nobody was in the vehicle when it sank. No casualties were reported in the incident and nobody was harmed.
Lieutenant Al Mansouri said the vehicle's driver was not in it when it sank.
He said that the company owner of the construction site was late in bringing the crane to be used in recovering the heavy vehicle from the sea.
He added that the bad weather and the high waves forced a delay in recovering the vehicle. Once the crane was brought work to recover the heavy vehicle started.
Lieutenant Al Mansouri said once the rescue personnel reached the vehicle they split it into two parts, where its back was recovered first with the crane and later the driver's cab was also brought out.
He added the operation to recover the vehicle took four hours.
He called on companies working close to the sea to take all necessary precautions and to park their vehicles a distance from the sea to avoid such incidents.
Once the rescue personnel reached the vehicle they split it into two parts, where its back was recovered first with the crane and later the driver's cab was also brought out.
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