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Dead bodies of six missing Azerbaijani oil workers found

07 December 2015 [16:37] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Aynur Karimova

The Emergency Situations Ministry of Azerbaijan has pulled out from the Caspian Sea the dead bodies of six oil workers as a result of the search operation.

Two of them were transferred to the shore, while the remaining corpses will be transferred soon.

Earlier on December 4, a fire broke out on the offshore platform #10 of SOCAR’s Gunashli field, after an underwater high-pressure gas pipeline was damaged in strong storm.

As many as 33 people have been rescued in a large-scale operation. Earlier one person was found dead and his body was handed over to his relatives. Some 23 people are still considered missing.

Azerbaijan continues searches for the missing oil workers both at the offshore field Gunashli and at the Oil Rocks. The searches were continued at night with help of vessels, and today the searches were rejoined by helicopters.

A special headquarters, headed by SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev, is working on the accident scene. The headquarters was transferred from platform #5 to the “Neftgaz-62” vessel, making it possible to approach the faulty platform #10.

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