One crew killed in Pertamina oil tanker fire

An empty oil tanker owned by state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina caught fire Wednesday afternoon, killing one crew, a company official said.

Pertamina's Communication Vice President Ifki Sukarya the 32,000-DWT MT Cendrawasih caught fire offshore Yogyakarta while sailing from Surabaya, East Java to Cilacap, Central Java.

"The vessel had nothing inside when the incident occurred," he said, adding the incident occurred because the vessel's power generator caught fire. The fire started at 2.30 p.m. and the vessel's crew managed to put it out in less than one hour.

Five crew sustained burn injuries from the incident. (godang)