Local media reported that the tanker caught fire on Sunday off the coast of the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara.
According to news broadcaster Kompas TV, the tanker is believed to belong to state energy company Pertamina since the vessel caught fire just off the coast of Pertamina’s oil depot in Ampenan, a town on the island of Lombok.
There were 17 people on board at 3:00 p.m. local time. Of these, 14 were evacuated from the ship. According to witnesses and fishermen involved in evacuating the crew together with the local search and rescue agency, the remaining three died in the fireplace.
Kompas TV footage showed flames coming from near the ship’s front mast and clouds of thick black smoke.
In May 2020, seven people were killed and 22 injured when the tanker Jag Leela burst into flames in one in every of Indonesia’s busiest ports.
Shortly before the fireplace broke out, two explosions were heard, sending huge clouds of thick black smoke into the air above the Belawan shipyard.
In March this yr, a sunken Philippine tanker carrying 800,000 liters (210,000) of commercial fuel oil leaked a few of its cargo into the ocean. Oil was found as distant as Casian Island, about 350 km southwest of where the tanker sank.
