{"id":99354,"date":"2020-12-14T02:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/explosion-results-in-fire-aboard-saudi-oil-tanker\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T02:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:56:18","slug":"explosion-results-in-fire-aboard-saudi-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/explosion-results-in-fire-aboard-saudi-oil-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Results in Fire Aboard Saudi Oil Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shipping company says one of its oil tankers off Saudi Arabia\u2019s port city of Jeddah was hit Monday by an \u201cexternal source\u201d that caused \u201can explosion and subsequent fire onboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hafnia, the owner of the BW Rhine tanker, said in a statement the crew \u201cextinguished the fire with assistance from the shore fire brigade and tugboats.\u201d No one was injured in the blast, but hull damage was reported<\/p>\n<p>The shipping company said it is \u201cpossible that some oil has escaped from the vessel,\u201d but added that \u201cinstrumentation currently indicates that oil levels on board are at the same level as before the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who or what was responsible for the blast. There have been no claims of responsibility for the explosion. Last month, however, Saudi officials blamed Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels for a mine blast that damaged a tanker off Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shipping company says one of its oil tankers off Saudi Arabia\u2019s port city of Jeddah was hit Monday by an \u201cexternal source\u201d that caused \u201can explosion and subsequent fire onboard.\u201d Hafnia, the owner of the BW Rhine tanker, said in a statement the crew \u201cextinguished the fire with assistance from the shore fire brigade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}