CARACAS, Venezuela - A Venezuelan navy official says a fire on a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Caribbean has killed nine crew members and injured five.
Adm. Carlos Maximo Aniasi Turchio tells Venezuelan state television that six of the dead crew members were from the Philippines and three from Greece. They had initially been listed as unaccounted for.
He says five injured crew members were taken by helicopter to Margarita Island and were to be transferred later to a military hospital in the capital, Caracas. The fire has been extinguished.
The Aegean Wind was carrying more than 37,000 tons of iron ore from Brazil to Houston when a blaze broke out in the mess hall before dawn Friday. The ship was about 100 miles (160 kilometres) north of Venezuela.
