A SHIP loaded with oil and diesel caught fire after an explosion today as it was docked in the Russian Baltic city of Kaliningrad, Russian media reported.Two people were hospitalised with medium to serious burns, ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the emergency situations ministry as saying.
State television showed footage of firefighters hosing water at a ship with a red hull as thick black smoke poured from the vessel. RIA-Novosti news agency reported that 14 fire engines were in action.
The ship was carrying 200 tonnes of oil and 200 tonnes of diesel, ITAR-TASS reported.
"An explosion took place on the tanker at Kaliningrad's Yantar shipyard," Interfax news agency quoted the local chief of the emergency situations ministry, Alexander Kulchitsky, as saying.
The explosion could be heard throughout Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave bordering the Baltic and surrounded on two sides by Lithuania and Poland.