One dead, 30 missing in Azerbaijan oil rig fire in Caspian Sea
Source: Yahoo! News / AFP
Baku (AFP) - One person was killed and 30 oil workers were missing Saturday after the rig they were working on in the Caspian Sea was engulfed by a fire, Azerbaijan's state energy firm SOCAR said.
Another 32 people were rescued, the company said on its website, listing the names of 62 workers caught up in the disaster.
The office of President Ilham Aliyev said one person had died in the blaze that broke out on Friday, with the rescue operation to retrieve the other staff hampered by a violent storm.
The storm had on Friday damaged a gas line on platform number 10 in the deepwater Guneshli section of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli offshore oil field, causing the fire, SOCAR said in a statement.
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