Smoke and flames soar from the burning oil tanker Sanchi off the coast of east China.
The stricken Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Shanghai burst into flames from end to end and sank yesterday cheap nike air max 90 se , eight days after it caught fire following a collision with a cargo ship.


Earlier, a Tehran official said there was no hope of saving some 30 missing crewmen before the ship sank, amid concern over an oil spill.


The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran, had been burning since colliding with the CF Crystal cheap nike air max 90 mesh , a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, about 300 kilometers east of the Yangtze River estuary on January 6.


At around midday yesterday the ship ¡°suddenly ignited,¡± with the entire vessel burning fiercely and a pall of smoke between 800 and 1,000 meters high, China¡¯s transport ministry said, releasing dramatic pictures of the entire vessel obscured by thick black smoke.


China¡¯s State Oceanic Administration said that it had detected fires and dense black smoke in a large area around the Panama-registered oil tanker at around 10am yesterday and the entire ship sunk at around 3pm.


A large amount of spilled oil is still burning on the surface around the site cheap nike air max 90 essential , the administration said, adding it will monitor the oil spills and evaluate the accident¡¯s impact on the marine environment.


¡°There is no hope of finding survivors among the members of the crew,¡± Mohammad Rastad, spokesman for the Iranian rescue team dispatched to Shanghai, told Iran¡¯s state broadcaster in Tehran before the tanker went down.


Rastad said information from members of the Crystal crew suggested all the personnel on the Sanchi died in the first hour of the accident ¡°due to the explosion and the release of gas.¡±


¡°Despite our efforts, it has not been possible to extinguish the fire and recover the bodies due to repeated explosions and gas leaks cheap nike air max 90 og ,¡± Rastad said.


The Sanchi, which had been headed to South Korea to deliver its cargo, had a crew of 32, all Iranians except for two Bangladeshis. Only three bodies have been recovered.


Scenes of anger and grief erupted in Tehran as news of the deaths reached dozens of family, friends and colleagues of the crew, who were waiting desperately for information about their loved ones at the National Iranian Tanker Company headquarters.


Chinese rescuers on Saturday recovered the tanker¡¯s ¡°black box cheap nike air max 90 premium ,¡± China¡¯s transport ministry said, without specifying exactly what had been retrieved.


A reporter with China¡¯s state television CCTV aboard a plane from the State Oceanic Administration reported seeing wreckage from the Sanchi, oil on fire, and spilled fuel covering a 10-square-kilometer area.


¡°The oil spill situation is very serious,¡± CCTV quoted the reporter as saying on social media.


But the television channel earlier also cited Zhang Yong, a senior engineer with the State Oceanic Administration cheap nike air max 90 leather , as playing down fears of a spill.


¡°Because this is a light crude oil spill, relatively speaking it has a much smaller impact than other oil spills, because this kind of oil is especially volatile ¡ª most of it has entered the atmosphere, so it¡¯s had less impact on the ocean,¡± Zhang was quoted as saying.


¡°This area should be considered the open sea, very far from places where people live www.max90shoes2018.com , so the human impact should be minimal,¡± Zhang aded.


Rescue efforts had been difficult because at 89 degrees Celsius, the vessel¡¯s compartments were too hot for workers to withstand for long, CCTV quoted He Wang, an expert from Chinese oil company Huade Petrochemical, as saying.

Residents rest with their belongings after they fled from their homes and take shelter inside a public school turned into an evacuation center in Albay Province cheap nike air max 90 2018 , the Philippines, Jan. 14, 2018. Nearly a thousand families living close to the Mayon Volcano evacuated from their homes as Philippine authorities raised its alert level of the Mayon volcano on Sunday for the second time in less than 24 hours from "increasing unrest" to "increased tendency towards eruption" within weeks or even days. (XinhuaStringer)

MANILA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Philippine authorities have ordered more than 900 families to evacuate as Mayon volcano continues to spew ash on Sunday.


Romina Marasigan, the spokesperson of the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said on Sunday that 919 families have been so far subjected to "mandatory evacuation" by local officials due to the "abnormal activities" of the volcano.


Marasigan could not immediately say the exact number of persons composing the 919 families evacuated but a family is usually composed of four to five members.


The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded two phreatic or steam-driven eruptions on Sunday morning. The cone-shaped volcano in Albay province rumbled back to life around 5 p.m. Saturday new cheap nike air max 90 , spewing ash plume around 2,500 meters high.


The institute said dust fell on several villages in the surrounding towns.


Phivolcs raised the alert level around the volcano following the series of phreatic eruptions, saying the volcano continues to exhibit signs of "increasing unrest" that could trigger more ash falls, rockfalls and landslides.


"This means that the current unrest is probably of magmatic origin, which could lead to more phreatic eruptions or eventually to hazardous magmatic eruptions," the institute said.


The Phivolcs has recorded at least three "phreatic eruptions" since Saturday afternoon.


On Saturday cheap nike air max 90 sale , the institute reported that the Mayon volcano spewed ashes in the air. On Sunday morning, Phivolcs said two more steam-driven ash explosions were recorded, producing grayish steam and ash plume.


The institute warned residents around the volcano to be vigilant and do not enter the 6-km ra

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