India, Oct. 2 -- The police on Thursday arrested three men who survived an explosion on a stranded ship off the city's coast while attempting to steal copper pipes, which resulted in the death of four of their gang members. The trio had managed to flee after the explosion, suspected to have been caused by a gas leak last week.

The incident occurred on September 27 onboard Al Jafzia, an unmanned Nicaragua-flagged tanker that has been stranded off the Gorai-Manori coast in Borivali West for the past four months.

The police registered an FIR against seven individuals after the bodies of the four who perished in the explosion were recovered on Wednesday. The three who survived the blast were arrested on Thursday, said Sandeep Ghuge, deputy ...