MEXICO CITY, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Three rig workers died as a result of an accident at the Abkatun-A offshore drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the state oil company in Mexico confirmed.
State oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, known also as Pemex, said workers were evacuated from the platform and treated onshore at a hospital controlled by the company after a fire broke out during the weekend.