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Three sailors died during an explosion on a tanker in the port of Makhachkala during oil pumping (photo, video)
The Rostransnadzor will conduct an emergency investigation in the Makhachkala sea shopping port, where during the pumping of oil products from the tanker "to f tanker 16" there was a gas -air mixture cotton in the machine department. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Rostransnadzor.
According to the State Emergencies Ministry for Dagestan, early in the morning in the Makhachkala sea shopping port during pumping petroleum products from the tanker, a gas -air mixture in the machine department occurred. Currently, there is a strong smoke of the machine department. Three people were killed, three more were hospitalized, the state of one of them is evaluated as extremely serious.
At first they could not find two victims, later they were discovered by the dead. All three victims are shift sailors, the press service of Rosmorrechflot said. According to the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Health of Dagestan Zalina Murtazalieva, the victim, who is in extremely serious condition, burns 95% of the body surface, the Caucasian Knot reports. There is no oil spill in the port.
According to RIA Novosti , there were 12 people on the tanker, there are a search for another sailor. The forces of the Morspasselia, the Ministry of Emergencies of Dagestan and the Caspian Flotilla are involved. The operation is led by the captain of the port.
On the fact of the incident, a criminal case has been instituted under the article “Causing death by negligence”, the cause of the incident has not yet been established. The adviser to Transneft President Igor Demin, in turn, clarified that the Port of the port of Makhachkala is closed, the oil transshipment is stopped, but there is no threat of fire of the cargo.
The vessel "in Fanker 16" belonged to the Russian VF Tanker, which since mid -December 2018 became part of the Volga Shipping Company. The Volga Shipping Company is part of the UCL Holding Vladimir Lisin.