32 missing as oil tanker collides with vessel off China coast

January 07, 2018 16:50

Thirty-two crew members, mostly Iranians, have gone missing after a tanker carrying oil from Iran to South Korea collided with a cargo ship and caught fire off the coast of east China.

The Panama-registered oil tanker, carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil condensate, was ablaze after it collided with a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter at around 8 pm yesterday, leaving its crew of 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis missing, China's transport ministry said in a statement.

The accident happened about 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai.

All 21 Chinese crew members on the bulk freighter have been rescued.

The 274-metre-long oil tanker SANCHI, owned by an Iranian shipping company, was heading to South Korea with its cargo. It caught fire after the collision and was still ablaze.

-- PTI

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