“Several of them received first aid on the spot; nobody needed hospitalization,” he said.
According to him, no repair or loading operations were carried out on the tanker during the explosion.
He suggested that the explosion and fire on the ship sailing under the flag of the Cayman Islands occurred because "apparently there was something in the cargo."
Earlier, South Korean authorities reported that nine people were injured in an Ulsan port as a result of an emergency on a cargo ship.