All North Sea gas platform crew to be evacuated

LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) Rescue services are to airlift the remaining personnel from a gas platform in danger of being hit by a ship adrift in the North Sea, the coastguard said today.

''The vessel is still broken down and we're looking into getting a tug out to it to pull it off course with the platform,'' Tony Tewton, watch manager of Humber Coastguard, told Reuters.

Earlier 20 of the 30 crew on board the Murdoch platform were airlifted to safety.

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