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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou and Barney Davis

Oil tanker on fire after colliding with cargo vessel in North Sea off East Yorkshire coast

One sailor is still missing and an oil tanker and cargo ship are on fire overnight after a collision in the North Sea.

Thirty-six casualties have been brought ashore but one member of the Portugal-registered MV Solong crew was still missing as night fell off the coast of Grimsby, according to the ship’s Hamburg-based owner, Ernst Russ.

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