By M.A. Egge
The Coast Guard has said that despite searching for the duo fishermen, who are feared to have drowned in the high seas, for two consecutive days.
They have only managed to retrieve their boat and fishing equipment.
Neither the duo nor their remains had been found by the time we went to press.
The two youthful fishermen had their boats sunk earlier in the week in the Red Sea on the northern Berbera coast and are since thought to have drowned and perished.
The relatives of the two fishermen who gathered on Tuesday at the Berbera fishing center said that only their boat and equipment was managed to be found and the duo are still missing.
They also asked the government to continue in helping find the two boys whether dead or alive.
The commander of the Coast Guard at the First Station in Berbera, Col. Omar Abdi Qalinle, gave a brief about the efforts of the military in the search for the duo since they first received the reports on their disappearances on th 2nd of September.
He said that apart from the fishing boat and its fishing gear equipment, the search for either live or dead bodies was in vain after 48 intensive and extensive hours of looking.
He suggested that the fisheries department should make it mandatory for fishermen to wear or have life-saving gear and equipment at all times while off-shore.