Greek fuel tanker explodes in Ghana port, 15 feared dead

dArKeR

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Sun Mar-27-05 12:09 AM
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Greek fuel tanker explodes in Ghana port, 15 feared dead

A Greek fuel tanker went up in flames in Ghana's main port on Friday, trapping at least 15 people who now are feared dead and disrupting fuel production at the West African nation's sole oil refinery, officials and witnesses said.

Sparks from welding ignited a fuel leak on the Greek-registered MV Polaris, which had been undergoing repairs at the port of Tema, 20km east of the capital, Accra, witnesses said.

One witness said the fire was caused by an oil spill from a pipeline that had been leaking for the past week.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/27/2003247961

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Lindacooks

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Sun Mar-27-05 12:10 AM
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1. I know oil and gas are flammable, but there sure are a lot of these

accidents happening all at once.

(Or is it inflammable? As Lowell Mather said on Wings, one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, 'I sure learned the difference the hard way...')

:P

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Career Prole

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Sun Mar-27-05 12:19 AM
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2. There were a bunch of refinery fires around the beginning of the war too.

Each one bumped the gas price a little higher. Does make one wonder...

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