Bangladeshi goes missing in Saudi offshore oilfield
A Bangladeshi and two Indian workers went missing after a mobile platform used for maintenance services sank in Al-Safaniya offshore oilfield area at Dammam in Saudi Arabia on Friday.
Quoting Saudi Aramco, a state-owned oil company, Arab News reported that 24 workers were rescued and taken to safety. Saudi Aramco’s rescue team has beefed up search operations for the missing.
The company announced that it would conduct a probe into the cause of the accident.
Khalid Alarqubi, spokesman of the Coast Guard, told Arab News that they received a report from Saudi Aramco that its platform sank about 30 km off Al-Khafji with 27 people on board.
The platform sank in Al-Safaniya, the world's largest offshore oilfield.
Contacted, Emdadul Haque, labour counsellor at Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh, told The Daily Star that they did not have any information yet.
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