Tanker burns, sinks off S'pore

Tanker burns, sinks off S'pore

SINGAPORE (AP): Two crewmen were hospitalized after a tanker
made of wood and carrying 100 metric tons of oil burned and sank
in Singaporean waters on Friday morning.

Antipollution vessels were monitoring the waters around the
tanker looking for signs of leakage. The vessel sank in the area
where ships anchor outside Singapore's port.

The Singapore Maritime and Port Authority said in a statement
that there had been no reports of any pollution from the sunken
vessel six hours after it went down.

The crew of the Belize-registered vessel, Samata 3, reported
that a fire had broken out at 7:58 a.m. (6:58 a.m. Jakarta Time),
the authority said. It took firefighters just over an hour to
bring the blaze under control. However, the tanker sank at 9:40
a.m., the statement said.