NEW DELHI: The government informed the Supreme Court on Friday that there is very little hope of locating two Indian seafarers who are missing since the drone attack on Palau-flagged merchant ship M V AGN Ragnar on July 25 while it was departing Ukrainian waters.

Filing a combined action-taken report by MEA and the Directorate General of Maritime Administration, solicitor general (SG) Tushar Mehta told the bench that despite intense search and rescue operations, the missing Indian seafarers â Deepak Kumar Gupta and Ram Chandra Dubey â could not be located.

The Supreme Court told Mehta to facilitate the familiesâ availing maritime insurance payments.