This handout picture from China's Transport Ministry taken and released on January 13, 2018 shows smoke and flames coming from the burning oil tanker/ This handout picture from China's Transport Ministry taken and released on January 13, 2018 shows smoke and flames coming from the burning oil ...
Chinese ships are racing to clean up a massive oil spill after an Iranian tanker sank in the East China Sea. Two ships sprayed chemical agents aimed at dissolving the oil, China Central Television reported on January 15. The 120-square-kilometer oil slick is thought to be made up of heavy fuel ...
In this Jan. 10, 2018 photo provided by China's Ministry of Transport, a firefighting boat works to put on a blaze on the oil tanker Sanchi in the East China Sea off the eastern coast of China. Rescue ships looking for missing crew members from the oil tanker Sanchi have expanded their search ...
This handout picture from the Transport Ministry of China shows smoke and flames coming from the burning oil tanker Sanchi before it sank/ This handout picture from the Transport Ministry of China shows smoke and flames coming from the burning oil tanker Sanchi before it sank (AFP Photo/-)/ ...
TEHRAN, Iran—A large Iranian oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship in the East China Sea had sunk and there are no hopes of finding any survivors, Chinese and Iranian state media said Sunday. The 899-foot Sanchi, carrying one million barrels of light crude, had been burning since the ...
A Chinese salvage team recovered two bodies on Saturday from a stricken Iranian oil tanker, that was still blazing a week after it caught fire and was left adrift following a collision in the East China Sea, state news agency Xinhua reported. The four members of the salvage team wore respirators ...
All 32 crew members on board an Iranian oil tanker that’s been burning for a week near China’s eastern coast are presumed dead, an Iranian official said./ Based on available evidence, all those on board died soon after the tanker collided with another vessel, Iran’s state-run Press TV news ...
The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran, had been in flames since colliding with the CF Crystal. (AP)/ An Iranian oil tanker burst into flames from end to end and sank Sunday, eight days after a collision with a cargo ship off China, state media said. A Tehran official ...
All 32 crew members on board an Iranian oil tanker that caught fire on January 6 after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast are dead. “There is no possibility of finding the bodies [of victims],” IRIB quoted Iran’s labor minister Ali Rabiei who is in charge of a special task force ...
Profound grief and pain engulfed the Iranian nation over the loss of 32 sailors who died aboard an oil tanker which burst into flames and sunk, eight days after a collision with a cargo ship off the coast of China. The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran, has been in ...
There is no chance any crew members had survived among the 32 aboard an Iranian oil tanker that was still blazing a week after the ship collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s east coast. "There is no hope of finding survivors among the members of the crew," ISNA quoted ...
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