A fire broke out in the Indian Ocean on the container ship MSС MESSINA, almost all of the crew of which were Ukrainians. One of them died.

This was announced by the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oleg Nikolenko, in a commentary to Radio Liberty..

According to him, on June 25, at a distance of 425 nautical miles from Port Blair on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, a fire broke out in the engine room of the MSC MESSINA container ship, as a result of which a Ukrainian citizen born in 2001 died..

The vessel with 28 crew members on board, including 26 Ukrainians, was heading from Colombo (Sri Lanka) to Singapore.

The fire was extinguished by the crew and with the help of several ships located in the area of \u200b\u200bthe incident..

No other sailors were injured in the incident.. Their condition is satisfactory.