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SOCAR: Azerbaijan not seeing offshore platform accident as sabotage (UPDATE)

Society Materials 6 December 2015 15:00 (UTC +04:00)

Details added (first version posted on 13:53)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 6

By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:

Azerbaijan doesn't intend to involve other countries' help to put out the fire on the Gunashli field's platform, and doesn't see the incident to be sabotage, said SOCAR's First Vice-President Khoshbakht Yusifzade.

"We have all the possibilities to extinguish the fire. Now the main task is to find the missing," he said at a press conference Dec. 6.

"I see no sabotage here. Here the matter rests in an explosion on a gas pipeline. A high pressure gas pipeline couldn't endure waves, was damaged and a fire occurred," noted the SOCAR official.

Fire broke out on an offshore platform of SOCAR's Gunashli field Dec. 4, after an underwater high-pressure gas pipeline was damaged in strong storm.

As many as 33 people have been rescued in a large-scale operation.

One person was found dead and his body was handed over to his relatives.

Some 29 people are considered missing.

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