{"id":308398,"date":"2019-01-22T06:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T06:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308398"},"modified":"2019-01-22T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T06:18:15","slug":"11-dead-as-two-ships-with-indian-turkish-crew-catch-fire-in-kerch-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/11-dead-as-two-ships-with-indian-turkish-crew-catch-fire-in-kerch-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"11 dead as two ships with Indian, Turkish crew catch fire in Kerch Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308399 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ship-crash-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/ship-crash-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/ship-crash.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 11 people were killed after two Tanzanian-flagged cargo vessels carrying Indian and Turkish crew members caught fire in the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from Russia, media reports said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the fire erupted on Monday off Russia\u2019s territorial waters while fuel was being pumped from one tanker to another. The blaze spread from one ship to the other, prompting the several crew members to jump overboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ships had\u00a0crews of 31 people in total &#8211;\u00a016\u00a0Turkish\u00a0citizens\u00a0and 15\u00a0Indian\u00a0nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rescuers pulled 12\u00a0people\u00a0alive\u00a0from the water and recovered 11 bodies, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Russian navy has joined the rescue operation, deploying two of its ships.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 people were killed after two Tanzanian-flagged cargo vessels carrying Indian and Turkish crew members caught fire in the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from Russia, media reports said on Tuesday. According to the sources, the fire erupted on Monday off Russia\u2019s territorial waters while fuel was being pumped from one tanker to another. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[10656,10655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308400,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308398\/revisions\/308400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}