Five injured crew members of the Singapore-flagged container vessel, which caught fire 78 nautical miles off Beypore coast of Kerala on Monday, will be treated in a private hospital in Mangaluru.

In a press release, the Mangaluru city police said Indian Navy vessel INS Surat rescued 18 of the 22 crew of MV Wan Hai 503 vessel enroute from Colombo to Mumbai. Of the 18 crew, eight were from China, four each from Taiwan and Myanmar, and two from Indonesia.