BBC: Cruise ship Costa Allegra adrift off Seychelles [View all]
An Italian cruise ship with more than 1,000 people on board is without power in the Indian Ocean following a fire. The Costa Allegra is adrift in the dark more than 200 miles southwest of the Seychelles, near Alphonse Island. The ship is from the same fleet as the Costa Concordia, which capsized off the Italian coast in January, killing 32.
Costa Cruises said in a statement that the fire broke out in the electric generators' room. It did not spread and there were no injuries or casualties. Inspections of the state of the engine room are on-going, the company says.
Tugs and "other naval and aerial units" will reach the ship, which has sent out a distress signal, Costa Cruises says. Commander Cosimo Nicastro of the Italian coast guard told the BBC that it took the crew a few hours to extinguish the fire. Although the ship is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there are "no problems for the passengers".
However the ship probably needs to be towed to a Seychelles port, he said.
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