Offshore Oil Rig 'Deepwater Horizon' Explodes Off the Gulf of Mexico

Helicopters, ships and an aeroplane searched the waters off Louisiana's coast today for at least 11 workers missing after an explosion and fire that left an offshore drilling platform tilting in the Gulf of Mexico.

Most of the 126 people on the rig, Deepwater Horizon, were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion last night, a coast guard officer, Mike O'Berry, said. The rig, about 52 miles south-east of Venice on Louisiana's tip, was listing about 10 degrees and still burning this morning.

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