A day of mourning will be held on Thursday for up to 30 people who died when a ship capsized off the Doha coast, the company renting the vessel said, as five more bodies were pulled from the water.
Doha-based company HBK Power Cleaning said six people have now been confirmed dead and 24 are still missing after the ship sank in rough seas. Five people have survived.
“The company will be holding a day of mourning on Thursday,” a spokesman for HBK told Maktoob Business.
In tragedy occurred at 6.30 a.m. on Tuesday while the UAE-owned vessel, Damas Victory, was in the Doha canal, Qatar’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
There has been no word on the cause of the incident.
The company spokesman said the ship headed inland on a “routine journey” when the vessel sank, describing it as a “natural calamity”.
“This incident was a natural calamity. There is no reason to believe there was any fault on the ship, as it was in very good condition. This was a routine journey,” he said.
HBK had rented the vessel three months ago for its work providing support services to oil and gas companies. There were 24 HBK employees on the vessel at the time it sank.
Damas Victory was owned by Dubai-based company Demas Marine. Demas was not available for comment.