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Huge fire engulfs oil tanker in Venezuela.

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Huge fire engulfed an oil tanker during cargo operations at the Guaragao oil refinery in Venezuela. The loading arm snapped for unknown reason during the transfer of gasoline to the Panama-flagged oil tanker, Larko, resulting in oil on the deck of the ship and ignited.

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The fire seem to have been extinguished and no injuries were reported. The country’s oil minister Tareck El Aissami confirmed the accident.

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