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UNBELIEVABLE: 3rd oil tanker body found 5 workers still missing - Caught on Camera

The tanker Smooth Sea 22 burns after the explosion, at a dockyard on the Mae Klong river in Muang district, Samut Songkhram, on Tuesday morning. (Photo: @EasternFireFighters Facebook)

SAMUT SONGKHRAM: The body of another worker killed by the explosion and fire aboard an oil tanker at a dockyard on the Mae Klong river on Tuesday was found on Wednesday morning, raising the confirmed death toll to three with five people still unaccounted for.

The explosion occurred about 9.25am on Tuesday while the tanker Smooth Sea 22 was moored for annual maintenance at Ruammitr Dockyard in tambon Laem Yai, Muang district. At the time, 27 dock workers were on board or near the vessel. Many were initially reported missing, but most were later accounted for.

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