North Sea: One dead, several injured in cargo ship fire off Dutch coast
The blaze follows a similar incident on an Italian cargo ship carrying hundreds of vehicles earlier this month. Two firefighters from the US state of New Jersey were killed in that fire.
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00:00 Tragedy in the North Sea. One person has died and several others were injured when a cargo
00:05 ship carrying some 3,000 vehicles caught fire in Dutch waters. The Panamanian registered
00:11 Fremantle Highway was en route to Port Said in Egypt from the German city of Bremerhaven.
00:17 The vessel was approximately 27 kilometres off Ameland Island when the blaze broke out.
00:22 The Dutch Coast Guard says 23 members of the crew were evacuated after they tried unsuccessfully
00:27 to extinguish the flames. Rescue vessels are trying to prevent the ship from sinking.
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