Rahul expresses support for kin of missing Coast Guard

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jul 08 2015 | 7:48 PM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today came out in support of the family of the three Coast Guard officials who are missing after their aircraft crashed a month ago.
"One month on still no trace of missing #ICGDornier &its brave crew. My prayers are with the families," Rahul, who is likely to meet the distraught family soon, tweeted.
With no clue emerging about the whereabouts of the missing Coast Guard aircraft and its three personnel onboard, the father of one of the officers has written an 'open' letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying they are "dying every second" and longing to get some bit of news about these men.
The parents of Deputy Commandant Manoj K Soni (Navigator of the aircraft), who were till now in Chennai with their daughter-in-law, are now camping in Delhi to urge the Prime Minister, the Defence Minister and other senior functionaries to seek international help in getting a clue about their son and his two colleagues.
The Coast Guard Dornier plane, CG-791, had taken off for a routine maritime surveillance sortie in coastal Tamil Nadu on June 8 and since then has been untraceable despite the CG and the Navy undertaking a massive search operation in the sea and the land areas.

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