Dubai, Dec 28: Two Indians including a Mangalorean and a Bangladeshi, were feared drowned when an offshore oil rig of Saudi Arabia's state-run petroleum giant Aramco sank in the Persian Gulf, officials said on Saturday.
He was working for Al Suwaiket Support Services, headquartered in Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia.
His wedding was scheduled in January 2014. He was last son among the nine.
Aramco had earlier said the two Indian and a Bangladeshi workers were missing following yesterday's accident in the waters off the coast of al-Safaniya region, the site of the world's largest offshore oil field.
The remaining 24 crew suffered "limited injuries" but were rescued, Aramco said.
"They (bodies) were all found. We found two of them late yesterday and another one this morning," Eastern Province Coastguard spokesman Col Khaled al-Arqubi was quoted as saying by AFP.
The platform was carrying out maintenance work at an oil well in al-Safaniya in Eastern Province, 265 km north of the city of Dhahran, when the accident took place.
Aramco said a thorough investigation had been launched into the accident, which had not affected its operations.
Saudi Arabia is the world's top oil producer.
Discovered in 1951, al-Safaniya oil field has a capacity of more than 1.2 million barrels per day.
Indian embassy officials to meet authorities
New Delhi, Dec 28: India today deployed staff from its mission in Saudi Arabia to assess the situation in the wake of reports that bodies of two Indians, reported missing after an offshore oil rig of state-run petroleum giant Aramco sank in the Persian Gulf, have been found.
"Staff is being deployed by the Embassy to visit the place and meet the officials and offer all assistance," official sources said here.
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