KARACHI, June 29: The Pakistan Navy has rescued two foreigners — a Mexican and an Indian — who had been fighting for their lives for 72 hours after their merchant vessel sank on being battered by this week’s cyclone.

An ISPR press release issued here on Friday said the navy had so far rescued 94 people and its search and rescue operation continued for the third day on the coastal belt of Balochistan and in the open sea.

It said that during a search operation in the open sea, the navy’s Atlantic aircraft informed PN Tariq about two persons in the sea and the ship rescued Antonio and Partap Singh. They were on the DLB 600 merchant ship which sank during the cyclone.