Friday, 22nd August 2008 - 15:11CET

No Maltese hurt in Libya refinery blaze

(Photo: George Ebejer)

No Maltese oil workers have been hurt in a major fire which has been raging since Wednesday at Libya's biggest oil refinery and oil storage facility.

The fire, at state-owned Ras Lanuf, near Tripoli, has forced Libya to reduce oil shipments.

The blaze started during maintenance works. Maltese worker George Ebejer said the fire spread to a discharge area.

Maltese Ambassador Joseph Cassar said no Maltese were hurt and the fire had now been contained.

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Comments

Amanda Mallia (on 22/8/08)

Here we go again .... reporting that "no Maltese are hurt", without even mentioning whether or not there were any injuries at all.

Readers may be interested to note that - according to the Herald Tribune (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/20/africa/ME-Libya-Oil-Fire.php ) - there were no injuries as a result of the blaze..