{"id":371649,"date":"2020-09-03T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371649"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:59:08","slug":"2-dead-2-missing-after-mauritius-oil-spill-clean-up-boats-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-dead-2-missing-after-mauritius-oil-spill-clean-up-boats-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 2 missing after Mauritius oil spill clean-up boats collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT LOUIS: The prime minister of Mauritius said Tuesday two sailors were dead and two others missing after a tugboat assisting in a major oil spill clean-up off the Indian Ocean island collided with a barge. <\/p>\n<p>A search was under way for the missing crew after the accident late Monday as the boats returned from where a tanker crashed into a reef in late July, leaking more than 1,000 tonnes of oil into the island&#8217;s picturesque waters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is tragic that we lost two of the tugboat crew, while two others are still missing,&#8221; Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said after visiting rescued sailors in hospital. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are doing everything we can to locate them, with all our means and with the help of fishermen in the area. On behalf of the government, I extend my sympathies to the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT LOUIS: The prime minister of Mauritius said Tuesday two sailors were dead and two others missing after a tugboat assisting in a major oil spill clean-up off the Indian Ocean island collided with a barge. A search was under way for the missing crew after the accident late Monday as the boats returned from where a tanker crashed into a reef in late July, leaking more than 1,000 tonnes of oil into the island&#8217;s picturesque waters. &#8220;It is tragic that we lost two of the tugboat crew, while two others are still missing,&#8221; Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}