Fire of a tanker off Sri Lanka May spill 270,000 tons of crude oil on September 4, 18:11
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A large tanker sailing off the coast of Sri Lanka, an island nation of the Indian Ocean, broke out in a fire, causing the military and others to extinguish fire, and cautioned against the possibility that about 270,000 tons of crude oil could be spilled.
According to the Sri Lankan Army, there was a fire around 4:30 am on the 3rd of Japan time, when there was an explosion near the engine room of a large tanker "New Diamond", which was sailing about 70km off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka.
Twenty-three people are on board the tanker, and to date, one Filipino sailor has been injured, and one is unknown.
The tanker is Panama-flagged and was chartered by an Indian state-owned oil company, carrying about 270,000 tonnes of crude oil from Kuwait to India.
Sri Lankan Navy ships and coast guards in India are mobilizing to carry out fire extinguishing work, but the fire is spreading to the section where crude oil is loaded, and we are increasing caution as crude oil may leak to the sea. I will.
In the Indian Ocean, in July this year, a large amount of heavy oil spilled from a Japanese freighter in Mauritius, an island nation.