A fire on a vessel carrying 98,000 tonnes of crude oil last weekend has left its senior officer dead and two other crew members critically injured. While the dead body of the deceased has been handed over to his family, the injured including a junior engineer are undergoing treatment at the Masina Hospital in Mazgaon.

The crude oil carrying vessel, MT Maharaja Agrasen arrived near Jawahar Dweep (an island off the coast of Mumbai) on April 9 and was anchored near its jetty number 4 at around 7.30 pm on Saturday, April 13, to discharge oil from the tanker when it suffered an explosion and thus caught fire. The fire was brought under control in time by its alert crew. This ship, that had 39 crew members on board, had arrived from Saudi Arab with crude oil.