A seafarer was medevaced to a hospital on the French island of Reunion yesterday following a nasty altercation with a colleague the day prior in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Crew from the LR 2 tanker STI Guard, owned by Scorpio Tankers, made contact with authorities on the French island on Monday morning, asking for urgent medical help after a seafarer was stabbed twice in the thorax. The ship was heading to Singapore from Ust-Luga in Russia when the incident happened 300 nautical miles southwest of Reunion. The vessel then made for the French island while receiving medical advice from French authorities. The man who stabbed the seafarer was being held in a cabin.
, owned by Scorpio Tankers, made contact with authorities on the French island on Monday morning, asking for urgent medical help after a seafarer was stabbed twice in the thorax. The ship was heading to Singapore from Ust-Luga in Russia when the incident happened 300 nautical miles southwest of Reunion. The vessel then made for the French island while receiving medical advice from French authorities. The man who stabbed the seafarer was being held in a cabin.After 24 hours the injured sailor was helicoptered off the ship and the vessel is now set to stay in Reunion for the coming days as an investigation gets underway.
This is the second stabbing reported on a cargo ship in the past 1o days. On January 28, a Serbian crewmember onboard the MSC Marta boxship injured three of his crewmates in a knifing incident off Guyana.
