Worker missing after offshore drilling vessel catches fire off Miri waters


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 17 Apr 2018

MIRI: One of 39 crewmen is missing after a fire that broke out on an offshore drilling-vessel near Miri in the South China Sea on Tuesday morning (April 17).

A search and rescue operation is underway to find the missing Malaysian crewman of MV Geos, owned by a KL-based company which is a subcontractor of Petronas, said MMEA (Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency) Miri chief Mohd Fauzi Othman.

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