An abandoned tanker that beached in Liberia has suffered a fire.

The New Dawn daily reported that flames were discovered in the captain's cabin on the 1,400-dwt Tamaya 1 (built 1980).

The ship washed up near Robertsport this week, with no crew in evidence.

State security personnel have boarded and secured the vessel.

There have been reports of three unknown men disembarking and fleeing in a canoe.

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