A tank truck and a cargo ship collided on the Coast of eastern England on Monday, providing fire to both ships and causing an important rescue operation, emergency services said.
At least 32 casualties were taken to the ground, but their condition was not clear immediately.
Martyn Boyers, Executive Director of the Port of Grimsby East, said that 13 victims were brought on a Windcat 33 ship, followed by another 19 in a pilot of port.
The maritime agency and the coastal nursery of Great Britain said that several lifeboats and a rescue helicopter from the Coast Guard were sent to the scene in the North Sea, along with a Coast Guard plane and nearby vessels with fire extinguishing capacity.
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The Life Rnli ship agency said that “there were reports that several people had abandoned ships after a collision and there were fires in both ships.” He said that three lifeboats were working on the search and rescue on the scene with the Coast Guard.
The video images cast by the BBC and apparently filmed from a nearby container showed thick black smoke that pours from both ships.
Boyers, the head of the port, said they had been told that there was “a ball of mass fire.”
“It's too far to see, about 10 miles, but we have seen that ships bring them,” he said.
The oil tanker, who is believed to be the carrier of chemical and oil products of the USA. The cargo ship, the container ship with a flag of Portugal Solong, sailed from Grangemouth in Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Coast Guards said the alarm was raised at 9:48 am (0948 GMT). The collision site is off the coast of Hull, about 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of London.
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