COLOMBO/NEW DELHI - A new fire broke out on a supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lanka, spokesmen for the country's navy said on Thursday , adding that one of its 23 crew was missing and another injured.
"There were 23 crew on board. We are bringing one injured crew member to Sri Lanka on board one of our vessels." Another spokesman, Commander Ranjith Rajapaksa, said the VLCC was ablaze about 20 nautical miles off the east coast of Sri Lanka and that the military had sent an aircraft and two ships to assist.On Twitter, India's coast guard said it had sent several ships and aircraft to help fight the fire.
Such a spill could cause an"environmental disaster", warned Ashok Sharma, managing director of shipbroker BRS Baxi in Singapore.Thursday's incident came a little more than a month after a state of"environmental emergency" triggered by the spill of about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil from a Japanese bulk carrier, MV Wakashio, when it ran aground on a reef in Mauritius.
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