Oil Tanker Fire

A person was killed while eight others suffered injuries when an oil tanker overturned and caught fire here on Sunday, officials said.

A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker caught fire after being struck by an unidentified projectile off Yemen on Saturday, in the latest attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Houthi Attack: US forces struck an anti-ship missile in Houthi-held Yemen that they said was ready to fire early Saturday, hours after the Iran-backed rebels caused a fire on a British tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a similar munition.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed Friday a missile strike on a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel on fire, their latest attack on shipping.

A massive fire erupted on a flyover in Punjab's Ludhiana after an oil tanker was up in flames after it hit a divider. The flyover was covered with black smoke billowing from the oil tanker, which overturned after hitting the divider.

A crude oil tanker bound for Indiawas hit by an attack drone fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, the US military said today.

A moving tanker caught fire near Kashedi Ghat in Poladpur Taluka of Maharashtra's Raigarh district late on Saturday evening.

The death toll in the fuel tanker fire incident in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone rose to 15 after five more people succumbed to their injuries, a senior official said today.

Police sources said that it is yet to be ascertained whether the tanker exploded after colliding with some vehicles or the vehicles collided with the on-fire tanker.

Two rockets launched from Lebanon on Wednesday struck Israel, which responded with artillery fire amid heightened regional tensions over an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf last week.

High resolution satellite imagery shows the impact of a massive fire that engulfed hundreds of trucks on February 13 at Afghanistan's Islam Qala, a key border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran's Herat province. At least 60 people were injured, news agency AFP reported.

Dozens of oil and gas tankers carrying millions of dollars worth of fuel caught fire on Saturday, creating an inferno at Afghanistan's biggest trade crossing with Iran, officials said.

The owners of the New Diamond supertanker which caught fire with a cargo of two million barrels of oil aboard have agreed to pay 340 million rupees ($1.84 million) to Sri Lanka for its help in extinguishing the blaze and averting disaster.

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday issued a notice to the captain of the oil tanker that caught fire off the country's eastern coast to appear before it on September 28.

Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island's east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze.

A person was killed while eight others suffered injuries when an oil tanker overturned and caught fire here on Sunday, officials said.

A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker caught fire after being struck by an unidentified projectile off Yemen on Saturday, in the latest attack on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Houthi Attack: US forces struck an anti-ship missile in Houthi-held Yemen that they said was ready to fire early Saturday, hours after the Iran-backed rebels caused a fire on a British tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a similar munition.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed Friday a missile strike on a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel on fire, their latest attack on shipping.

A massive fire erupted on a flyover in Punjab's Ludhiana after an oil tanker was up in flames after it hit a divider. The flyover was covered with black smoke billowing from the oil tanker, which overturned after hitting the divider.

A crude oil tanker bound for Indiawas hit by an attack drone fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, the US military said today.

A moving tanker caught fire near Kashedi Ghat in Poladpur Taluka of Maharashtra's Raigarh district late on Saturday evening.

The death toll in the fuel tanker fire incident in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone rose to 15 after five more people succumbed to their injuries, a senior official said today.

Police sources said that it is yet to be ascertained whether the tanker exploded after colliding with some vehicles or the vehicles collided with the on-fire tanker.

Two rockets launched from Lebanon on Wednesday struck Israel, which responded with artillery fire amid heightened regional tensions over an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf last week.

High resolution satellite imagery shows the impact of a massive fire that engulfed hundreds of trucks on February 13 at Afghanistan's Islam Qala, a key border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran's Herat province. At least 60 people were injured, news agency AFP reported.

Dozens of oil and gas tankers carrying millions of dollars worth of fuel caught fire on Saturday, creating an inferno at Afghanistan's biggest trade crossing with Iran, officials said.

The owners of the New Diamond supertanker which caught fire with a cargo of two million barrels of oil aboard have agreed to pay 340 million rupees ($1.84 million) to Sri Lanka for its help in extinguishing the blaze and averting disaster.

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday issued a notice to the captain of the oil tanker that caught fire off the country's eastern coast to appear before it on September 28.

Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island's east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze.