Russian reefer ship suffers engine room blast

Fire broke out on a Russian reefer ship shortly after it departed from South Korea’s Busan port on 26 March.

Korea Coast Guard’s Busan branch said that its patrol vessel detected flames on the 1993-built Crystal Asia around 7 am local time. At the time, the ship was 8km south of Busan’s Gamcheon sub-port. All 23 crew members were evacuated, and the fire was extinguished within 50 minutes.

However, six of the seafarers were injured, and two severely hurt men were airlifted to a local hospital. The...

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