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| Russian tanker on fire in Caspian Sea, crew evacuated – emergency agency | Russian tanker on fire in Caspian Sea, crew evacuated – emergency agency |
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| A Russian tanker has caught fire in the Caspian Sea near the territorial waters of Turkmenistan. The crew has been evacuated while the Russian Emergency Ministry prepares amphibious firefighting aircraft to extinguish the fire on the vessel. | A Russian tanker has caught fire in the Caspian Sea near the territorial waters of Turkmenistan. The crew has been evacuated while the Russian Emergency Ministry prepares amphibious firefighting aircraft to extinguish the fire on the vessel. |
| The vessel in distress is currently drifting in Turkmenistan’s territorial waters some 800 kilometers from Russia’s nearest port, Astrakhan. All 18 crew members have been evacuated from the ship by another Russian vessel, emergency agency sources told Russian media. | |
| There has been a report of a crew member dying in the incident, but the Russian Emergency Ministry has not confirmed this information. | |
| According to the Emergency Ministry, the tanker was not transporting any oil products and its tanks are filled with seawater as ballast. | |
| The ministry is currently readying a Be-200 amphibious firefighting aircraft that could reach the burning vessel and try to put the fire out remotely, without people getting onboard. | |
| Palflot’s port of commission is city of Taganrog, a port in the Azov Sea connected with the Caspian Sea via a system of waterways. | |
| The Emergency Ministry of Azerbaijan, situated on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea, is preparing to dispatch a pair of helicopters and a speedboat to the tanker in distress. | |
| Despite its huge size, the Caspian Sea not naturally connected to the rest of the global ocean, is considered to be the planet’s largest saline lake.Crew members of the Palflot are citizens of Russia and Kazakhstan. | |
| A source told RIA Novosti that the ignition source is believed to be on the deck of the vessel. |