KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police say an explosion and fire possibly caused by a lightning strike killed one crew member of a tanker docked off Borneo island and injured three others.
District police chief Saiman Kasran says the tanker was set ablaze at a jetty while carrying methanol on Labuan island near Borneo's coast early Thursday.
He says authorities have brought the fire under control and recovered the body of a Malaysian.
A separate police statement says 24 Malaysians and Filipinos had been aboard the vessel owned by national shipping company MISC. At least one person remained missing.
The statement says the cause of the explosion has not been determined but adds that witnesses reported loud thunder before the fire broke out.
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