The Joint Task Group Sulu (JTGS) has safely rescued late
Thursday a passenger-cargo vessel with 17 people and fuel aboard in the Sulu Sea .
Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado, JTGS commander, said the vessel
was safely rescued around 7:10 p.m. Thursday off Sulu.
Arrojado said the rescue came after Sulu second district
Rep. Habib Tupay Loong have requested them to provide assistance to M/L TJ,
which is in distress.
Arrojado said based on information they gathered the
vessel’s engine malfunctioned while traveling from this city to Tumbagaaan
Mining in Languyan town in Tawi-Tawi.
He said the vessel, which has 10 crew and seven passengers,
departed in this city around 4 a.m. Thursday. It is also loaded with diesel
fuel.
He said M/L TJ is owned by Najib Juljani and skippered by
Razu Ragba.
He said M/L TJ is being towed by Multi-Purpose Attack Craft
(MPAC) of the JTGS’ Naval Task Unit and is scheduled to arrive at the port of Jolo
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