Chinese crewman missing after vessel catches fire

Chinese crewman missing after vessel catches fire

Jakarta, Agence France-Presse

A Chinese crewman remained missing after a tanker functioning as
a fuel station for fishing boats caught fire in the sea off the
Indonesian province of Maluku, a port official said Sunday.

Ten people were rescued.

The PSTJ-03 tanker, floating in the sea off the Maluku island
of Ambon, had some 120 tonnes of fuel in store when fire broke
out early Saturday, said Agam Guling of the Ambon port
administration.

"The Dwi Bayu navy ship found 10 of the 11 crew known to have
been on board the tanker, four of them were in critical
condition," Guling said.

A Chinese crewman he identified as Wu Yongzeng, 32, was still
missing, he added.

The tanker, he said, was privately owned.

Many foreign nationals, mostly from China, Taiwan and
Thailand, work on the large fishing fleets trawling the waters of
eastern Indonesia.