| The bodies of of the three Tunisian workers who died last Friday in the accident on the Bouri Offshore Field in Libya, will be repatriated on Sunday night or Monday, Tunisia’s General Consul in Tripoli Taoufik Guesmi said Sunday.
A search is active for a fourth Tunisian man who has been reported missing, he added in a statement to TAP. The health of a fifth Tunisian, injured in the accident, is stable, he further indicated. The Tunisian consul said the bodies of the three Tunisians were transferred from the the Bouri field to Sabratha for autopsy. The company that has concluded a contract with the Tunisian consulate in Tripoli will repatriate them to Tunisia and after finalising necessary administrative procedures, added Taoufik Guesmi. He also said the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Libya had traveled to the Bouri oil field on Saturday to investigate the circumstances of the accident. The Libyan Ministry of Transport’s ports and shipping service announced in a statement Friday that Tunisian nationals had died in a “painful accident” on the Bouri oil platform in Libya. Other people were missing following this accident, which occurred when cables holding a floating reservoir snapped plunging them into the sea. Guesmi announced the creation of an emergency crisis cell that will go to the scene of the accident to prepare a report to this effect. |
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