{"id":49396,"date":"2026-10-29T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49396"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:44:10","slug":"three-bodies-recovered-in-gabon-following-sinking-of-borr-drilling-rig","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/three-bodies-recovered-in-gabon-following-sinking-of-borr-drilling-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Three bodies recovered in Gabon following sinking of Borr Drilling rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Three bodies were recovered in Gabon on \u200bWednesday following the sinking at the weekend of \u200cBorr Drilling&#8217;s Prospector five rig off the coast of the southern town of Mayumba, the Central African country&#8217;s navy said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The \u200baccident occurred on Saturday at the Prospector five \u200boil and gas rig, owned and operated by \u2060Borr. The rig is contracted to support BW \u200bEnergy&#8217;s drilling operations off Gabon and it had not \u200byet begun drilling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Borr said on Monday that 110 of 115 people aboard were safe and five remained unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chief of Staff of \u200bthe Gabonese Navy, Charles Hubert Bekale-Meyong, said three \u200bbodies were found on Wednesday, and two people were still missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;This \u200cdiscovery \u2060was made possible thanks to underwater inspections conducted using remotely operated robots. However, the images collected do not allow for the identification of the bodies in question,&#8221; \u200bBekale-Meyong said \u200bon national \u2060television.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday that an Indian national, one of the \u200bfive initially unaccounted for, was found dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u200bThe \u2060remaining four missing include three Gabonese nationals and one other expatriate, they added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14211,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49396","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Three bodies were recovered in Gabon","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49398,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49396\/revisions\/49398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}