Platform operator Socar has so far only confirmed one casualty following Friday’s fire on the Number 10 platform on the Guneshli field.
However, the office of President Ilham Aliyev referred in a brief statement to “numerous deaths” and declared a day of mourning in solidarity with the “families of those killed”.
Reuters, citing the head of Azerbaijan's Oil Workers' Rights Protection Committee, Mirvari Gakhramanly, reported on Saturday that 32 workers had died and 42 were rescued.
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