A crew of 25 seafarers has been evacuated from a container ship hit by a serious fire off Saudi Arabia.
The blaze broke out on the 2,007-teu large feeder vessel TSS Pearl (built 2008) on Thursday, 123 nautical miles (228 km) north-west of the Red Sea port of Jizan.
A photo published by the country’s state Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows orange flames erupting from the back of the Panama-flag ship, and a plume of black smoke rising into the sky.
