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Monday, March 01, 2004
2 Pinoys among dead in tanker blast off US coast
MANILA -- Two Filipino seamen were killed and 16 are still missing after a Singapore-flagged tanker exploded and sank off the US east coast, the foreign affairs spokeswoman said Sunday.
Six other Filipino crewmen were injured in the explosion of the Bow Mariner around 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) Saturday about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Virginia coast, Department of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Julia Heideman said.
Heideman said a Philippine embassy representative would go to Virginia to see what assistance could be extended to those involved. She would not speculate on the fate of the missing seamen.
The 570-foot-long (174-meter-long) tanker was carrying more than 3.5 million gallons (13.25 million liters) of industrial ethanol from New York to Houston.
Three of the crewmen were killed and 18 were missing after the explosion.
Twenty-four of the crew were Philippine nationals and three were Greeks. (AFP)
(March 1, 2004 issue)
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