Singaporean cargo ship catches fire after explosion off Kerala coast

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A Singapore-flagged container ship, MV Wan Hai 503, caught fire after an explosion off the coast of Beypore in Kozhikode, Kerala, on Monday morning. The blast occurred around 10:30 am on the ship’s underdeck while it was en route from Colombo to Nhava Sheva. The vessel was located approximately 315 km off Kochi and 70 nautical miles west of Beypore at the time of the incident.

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00:00A tragic incident, and again from Kerala port, a merchant vessel has caught fire.

00:05Shocking visuals on your screens coming up.

00:07This is, we are told that Coast Guard ship is headed for firefighting as well.

00:12This is a merchant vessel.

00:14This is the Virangam port in Kerala that has clearly caught fire.

00:18We're not yet aware about the kind of cargo, the packages that are there, the luggage on the vessel.

00:25We'll try and get more details on that, but this is disturbing, remember.

00:28This is as much about how, what happened about a few days ago.

00:32Shibimul K.G. will be joining me for the latest on that.

00:36Shibimul, go ahead, because barely a few days ago we were discussing about the containers of the seashore

00:42and how possibly that could impact the sea life, and now this happens.

00:46What are you picking up about this detail?

00:49Well, Pooja, what we know is this is a cargo ship that was traveling from Colombo,

00:54that departed from Colombo on 7 June, and it was traveling to Mumbai with estimated arrival on 10 June.

01:01It has caught fire.

01:03What we know is it's a Singapore-plugged container ship,

01:06and also there were more than 40 people inside the containers, what we know, inside the ship.

01:11And out of the containers, around 40, in the initial information, 40 is likely to have fallen into the sea.

01:19But as of now, the state, you know, the priority here as far as Coast Guard and Indian Navy is concerned

01:24is to rescue the people on board the ship, because there are still many people, you know,

01:31that needs to be rescued from the ship.

01:33So that is the first priority.

01:35As of now, the State Disaster Management Authority is informed that there's nothing to be concerned

01:39as far as the cargo is concerned.

01:41The containers that are falling into the sea is concerned, because, like you pointed out,

01:46a few weeks ago, we had the coastal line in Kerala was put on high alert

01:50after a Liberian container vessel fully sank off the Kuchik coast.

01:54So we're still recovering from it.

01:56So that's when this incident has taken place.

01:58It has caught fire off the coast of Bapur and Kohikor.

02:01So pretty, another prominent port in Kerala, as far as Kerala is concerned.

02:05But as of now, there are around more than 40 people on board the ship,

02:09and rescuing them is the priority.

02:11Keep tracking all the latest developments coming in from Kerala port.

02:14A merchant vessel has caught fire.

02:16We'll be tracking the details on that.

02:18Shibamul, thank you very much.

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