Two dead after Peruvian navy ship hits oil platform in Amazon River

A Peruvian navy vas has collided with an lipid level successful the Amazon River, sidesplitting astatine slightest 2 radical and leaving 1 missing.

The collision happened successful the aboriginal hours of Friday greeting astatine the junction of the Napo and Amazon rivers, causing "severe damage", Peru's defence ministry said.

Thirty unit members were rescued from the vessel, with specialised diving teams and helicopters deployed arsenic portion of the hunt operation, the connection added.

It is not wide if the platform, owned by Anglo-French institution Perenco, was damaged oregon whether lipid has leaked into the river. The Peruvian defence ministry said it was investigating the origin of collision.

"Peru's Navy profoundly regrets the irreparable nonaccomplishment of our unit members," the defence ministry said, adding that it would supply assistance to their loved ones.

The ministry said the vessel, called Ucayali, deed the level portion it was navigating adjacent the rima of the Napo River successful bluish Peru. BBC News has approached Perenco for comment.

There are hundreds of state and lipid blocks successful areas of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador covered by the Amazon rainforest. Spills successful the portion person had a devastating interaction connected indigenous communities and section wildlife.

In 2022, the Peruvian authorities said almost 12,000 barrels of lipid had leaked into the sea aft a tanker was deed by waves linked to a volcanic eruption connected Tonga.