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His wife Leena was a cancer survivor. Rajkot: Joseph Chacko, administrator of Kandla Seafarer’s Association and his wife Leena, died in a car accident near Halvad town on the Ahmedabad-Gandhidham highway on Wednesday.The accident happened when the car driver Noormohammed Hingroja crashed into a dumper that applied sudden break. They were returning to Gandhidham from Ahmedabad.Chacko (57) was the key person working for the release of 18 Indian crew members stranded on two ships detained off Kandla port since February 2017. He will be badly missed,” said Ravi Parmar, former chairman of DPT, whose deputation ended recently.Chacko had taken the initiative to set up the seafarers’ welfare home at the port. Recently, he had helped secure the release of two crew members — one from Maharashtra and another from Kolkata.Thanks to his efforts, the Gujarat high court had last week ordered the UAE-based owners of the two ships to release the remaining 16 crew members..