Huge Fire in Suez Canal

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6 locomotives and Lynch , for control of the Dutch ship before the fire crossed the Suez Canal .. flames devouring almost entire vehicle .. And its crew of 25 people locked up the remaining part thereof .. The boats pulled by 2 mile away from the field of Oil Exports

Navy and pushed the Red Sea Ports Authority , 6 locomotives , and a huge fire Lynch to try to control the fire , which broke out in the late hours of Wednesday evening the Dutch ship ” Maersk Kampala ” , in the Gulf of Suez.

An official source confirmed the Red Sea Ports Authority , that the vessel when exposed to fire was outside the territorial waters of Egypt, and the region which suffered fire supervised by the International Maritime Safety .

The source for the “seventh day ” that the ship is now in a very dangerous situation and almost flames devour the ship as a whole, pointing out that there are attempts to rescue 25 people from the crew , trying locomotives amortization Egyptian control the fire burning in the corners , pointing out that the ship was coming from one of the countries South Africa in the direction of one of the Arab countries , with 400 on board , cargo containers , load capacity of 80 tons .

The source explained that the ship’s crew locked into the remaining part of the ship , which has not had received so far fire and hit the ship to fire container area called ” Wadi Ferran ,” which far from the city of Ras Gharib north at 7 mph , almost precisely the point 28 north and 32 east of the center received Literary and who received a distress .

The source pointed to the arrival of locomotives determine where you hit the ship by the combustion of the radar reception center signal distress , and it was precisely the point 28 north and 32 east, stressing that the locomotives, marine managed to drag the ship 2 miles from the place of the near field Oil Exports from the place of combustion fear the arrival of the fire him .

Was one of the centers of distress companies Petroleum Gharib , had received a signal fire a ship flying the flag of the Dutch , outside territorial waters, and a length of 300 meters, was to locate the ship through monitoring devices of the highest observation towers area of ​​the northern city of Ras Gharib a 7 nautical miles north of the sea Red in the Gulf of Suez , and demanded to inform the Egyptian Navy , the Port Authority and intelligence to try to save it .