Rescue bid as fire hits Azeri oil rig

Rescue bid as fire hits Azeri oil rig, A accomplishment operation is beneath way in the Caspian Sea amidst letters than at atomic 31 workers on an off-shore oil belvedere may accept died in a fire.

Mirvari Gakhramanly, of Azerbaijan's Oil Workers' Rights Protection Committee, told the BBC that the workers were missing, accepted dead.

Azerbaijan's accompaniment activity company, Socar, said 29 workers had been abandoned but denied any deaths.

A astringent storm is said to be complicating the accomplishment effort.

Socar said on Friday that a gas activity on the belvedere in Azerbaijan's Guneshli oil acreage had bent blaze afterwards getting damaged in able winds.

"Right now 29 humans accept been rescued," Socar said in a statement, but did not say how abounding humans were still on the rig.

Azeri media said about 60 workers had been on the belvedere at the time.

During the aforementioned storm, three workers went missing from addition adopted oil belvedere in the Caspian Sea, Socar said.

Azerbaijan, which borders Russia and Iran, has become a above bounded amateur in oil and gas, allowance to bear activity to the West via Turkey and bypassing Russia.

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