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20:53, 15-Jul-2017
One dead, two injured as wooden boats catch fire in Indonesia
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One person was killed and two others wounded after 17 wooden boats caught fire at a river in the Pati district of Indonesia's Central Java province on Saturday, according to a senior official of an disaster agency.
Firefighters and water canon trucks were hampered to enter due to difficulty in accessing the site, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency told Xinhua in a text message.
The incident started at 13:50 at the Juwana port in Kenongo river, the spokesman said.
Efforts to separate the 17 boats from the other ones are still underway, he added.
(Source: Xinhua)
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