10 dead, 18 injured in Indonesia oil tanker fire

At least 10 people were killed and 18 were injured when an oil tanker, the MT Federal II, caught fire while being repaired at a shipyard in Batam, Indonesia, on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. local time, and all the victims were workers repairing the vessel. The ship was not carrying oil at the time, and the cause of the fire is under investigation. Authorities confirmed that some of the injuries were severe. This incident follows a similar fire in Batam in June, which killed four people and injured nine others.

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