The Tunisian authorities have released new details in the Bouri offshore field accident in Libya that claimed the lives of four Tunisians.
The Tunisian Embassy in Libya confirmed Saturday that five Tunisian workers fell from a floating storage tank while conducting maintenance work at the Bouri offshore field.
The Tunisian Consul General in Tripoli, Tawfiq Al-Qasimi, raised the death toll to four later that night and told Tunisian media that one of the bodies is still missing.
Among the victims was the owner of the executing company. The company was about to complete its work on Friday, the day the accident occurred, according to Al-Qasimi.
He confirmed that the bodies were transferred on Sunday morning to Sabratha city for an autopsy before being repatriated to their homeland.
Last Friday, the Libyan Ports and Maritime Transport Authority announced the death, injury, and loss of several Tunisian workers at the field, after the bridge linking the Sloug floating tank broke away from the connection points at the platform.
