3 sailors die of food poisoning on oil tanker

Posted: March 10th, 2010 - 10:12pm by Doug Powell

Agence France-Presse reports that three sailors have died of food poisoning on an oil tanker traversing the Channel between Britain and Europe, French maritime authorities said Wednesday.

The captain of the Marshall Islands-flagged Arionas reported the deaths overnight, French officials said, adding that the source of the food poisoning was not known.

French officials have sent a helicopter with two gendarmes and a doctor for a preliminary investigation. More gendarmes would be sent later to question the crew.

Your rating: None (1 vote)
Bookmark and Share
Categories: Other Microorganisms
Tags: Food Poisoning, France, sailor, tanker

Comments

Anonymous says:

Bad ending, bad way to go, a real tragedy, must have been some powerful bad bug. No way to get to a hospital. Very sad.

Posted on March 10th, 2010 - 11:20pm

Scott Hurd says:

Hi Doug, Any clues as to what the bugs was? cheers Scott

Posted on March 12th, 2010 - 10:47am

Anonymous says:

Latest report from French officials in Le Havre where the bodies were taken suggest it was not a food bug but illicit alcohol that the Russian sailors had smuggled on board the booze-free tanker.

Posted on March 16th, 2010 - 2:03pm

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.