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French oil tanker blown off Eastern coast of Yemen, 12 wounded, 13 missing
Yemen, Local, 10/7/2002
The French embassy in Sanaa said that 12 persons were wounded in a French oil tanker explosion off the eastern coast of Yemen.
The diplomat said that 12 members of the crew were wounded and admitted to hospital but gave no explanations on the fate of the other 13 persons of the crew.
He added that some 16 of the 25 crew members are of Bulgarian nationality.
A French diplomat in Sanaa said that a terrorist act might be behind the blowing off the French oil tanker on Sunday at dawn off the Eastern coast of Yemen.
The deputy Consul at the French embassy in Sanaa, Marsal Gongalivs, said that the tanker was hit by a small boat carrying explosives and the incident seems like an attack similar to that against the American warship USS Cole in 2000.
Oil sources said that the French oil tanker in which fire erupted following an explosion that took place on its deck was on its way to the Yemeni Shahar port on the Red Sea and was loaded with 397,000 barrels of crude oil.
Navigation sources said that the explosion took place in the fourth reservoirs of the tanker when it was in Shahar port, in al-Mukalla area which is 750 Km to the southern east of Sanaa, for fuel supplies and that the crew drove it away from the port.
Oil sources indicated that 11 members of the tanker's crew threw themselves to the sea when the explosion took place, while other 14 fought the fire with the support of the Yemeni authorities.
Eye- witnesses said that intensive smoke was seen coming from the tanker.
However, a Yemeni official ruled out any terrorist objectives to be behind this incident or to be planned for.
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