One person has died and four more are missing after an oil rig with 115 people on board collapsed and sank off the coast of Gabon.
After Borr Drilling’s Prospector 5 rig sank late on Saturday an Indian national was found dead, while the four missing people include three Gabonese nationals and a Croatian, according to reports.
The rig was preparing to start drilling off the central African country when it experienced a severe structural failure that caused it to sink, Borr Drilling said.
‘Preliminary information indicates that the rig experienced a punch-through event during preload activities, resulting in loss of stability and
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