The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said on Tuesday (May 2) that one Ukrainian and two Indian nationals were the missing crew members of a tanker that caught fire off the southern coast on Monday (May 1).
The tanker was on its way from China to Singapore with 28 crew members on board, the agency said, adding that 23 were rescued by the MMEA and by nearby vessels while 3 were still missing.
"The active search and rescue operation involves a search area divided into four sectors totaling 71 nautical miles," the agency's director general Saiful Lizan Ibrahim said.
The MMEA said it commenced search and rescue operations after receiving an alert at 1600 local time about a tanker on fire.
The cause of the incident was under investigation, the maritime agency said.
Pablo Union Shipping, the Marshall Islands-based owner of the vessel, according to shipping databases, could not be located for comment. The vessel's insurers were unknown.
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