Five crew members have died in a fire on a veteran product tanker off Indonesia.

Police said the 1,250-dwt Elisabet (built 1992) caught fire on Wednesday near Gili Tepekong on the island of Bali, leaving 15 other seafarers injured, AP reported.

Twenty-one crew members were on board the Indonesia-flagged ship, which was en route to West Nusa Tenggara province, police said.