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30 missing after Caspian Sea oil rig fire: company

Published: 06 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 01:41 pm
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Baku: Thirty Azeri workers were missing Saturday after the oil platform they were working on in the Caspian Sea was engulfed by a fire, the state energy firm SOCAR said.

Another 32 people were rescued, it said on its website, listing the 62 workers' names. The office of President Ilham Aliyev said earlier that one person had died in the blaze.

AFP