{"id":23562,"date":"2025-10-15T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23562"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:04:16","slug":"indonesia-oil-tanker-fire-kills-10-injures-nearly-two-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23562","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia oil tanker fire kills 10, injures nearly two dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An oil tanker undergoing repairs at a shipyard in western Indonesia caught fire early Wednesday, killing 10 people and injuring 21 others, local police said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out aboard the MT Federal II at around 4:30 am (2130 GMT Tuesday), while the vessel was docked at a shipyard on Batam island, near Singapore, local police chief Zaenal Arifin told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Sparks were seen inside a storage area of the vessel, he added. The fire was extinguished about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0Uproar as London mosque bars women from charity run<\/p>\n<p>The victims were taken to four nearby hospitals, and authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian-flagged tanker was not carrying any oil cargo at the time of the incident, Arifin said, adding that the ship had been emptied ahead of the repair work.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second fatal fire aboard the same vessel in less than five months.<\/p>\n<p>In June, four people were killed in a similar incident, according to Zaenal, which investigators later blamed on sparks igniting residual gas in a storage area that had not been fully cleared.<\/p>\n<p>He said two health and safety workers from the shipyard were named as suspects in relation to the June incident, which occurred in a different part of the vessel.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker undergoing repairs at a shipyard in western Indonesia caught fire early Wednesday, killing 10 people and injuring 21 others, local police said. The blaze broke out aboard the MT Federal II at around 4:30 am (2130 GMT Tuesday), while the vessel was docked at a shipyard on Batam island, near Singapore, local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}