{"id":5465,"date":"2010-04-21T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2010-04-21T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T14:15:58","slug":"explosion-at-oil-drilling-platform-7-injured-15-missing-32535465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/explosion-at-oil-drilling-platform-7-injured-15-missing-32535465\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at oil drilling platform: 7 injured 15 missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Reports are coming in of an explosion on an oil drilling platform just off Louisiana&#8217;s coast.<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5466\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5466 \" title=\"badly burned man oil platform\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/badly-burned-man-oil-platform.jpg\" alt=\"One of the injured is pictured with his right arm and shoulder heavily burned. \" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the injured is pictured with his right arm and shoulder heavily burned. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed this morning that an explosion occurred on an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana&#8217;s coast. Initial reports say that at least seven people were injured in the explosion and 15 workers are missing.<\/h2>\n<p>The incident was reported Tuesday night around 10 PM local time but is still currently burning 52 miles just South East of Venice, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Several fire boats are tackling the blaze which is threatening the environment.<\/p>\n<p>According to several local news channels three people were in critical state and a further two suffered from burns though there severity are not known as yet.<\/p>\n<p>It has so far been confirmed that all people on the platform have evacuated but 15 people remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>126 people were reported to be on the platform and so far 115 of them have been accounted for said an official to WWL First News.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil platform explodes in U.S. Reports are coming in of an explosion on an oil drilling platform just off Louisiana&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,118,14],"tags":[7086,7079,7081,7082,7084,7085,7076,7078,7077,7080,7083],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-explosion-oil-drilling-platform","tag-explosion-oil-platform","tag-louisiana-oil-platform","tag-louisiana-oil-platform-explosion","tag-oil-drilling-platform","tag-oil-drilling-platform-explosion","tag-oil-platform","tag-oil-platform-explosion","tag-oil-rig","tag-us-coast-guard","tag-us-oil-platform-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}