4 dead, 16 injured in Gulf of Mexico oil rig fire

At least four people were killed and more than a dozen others were hurt in an oil rig platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

USA Today noted that Mexico’s petroleum company Pemex announced that four were killed, at least 16 were injured and another 300 were evacuated after the fire broke out. Of those injured, two are believed to be very serious.

The company said that the blaze happened overnight in the Abkatun Permanente platform in the Bay of Campeche, which forms part of the Abkatun-Pol-Chuc offshore complex.

Videos of the large fire were posted on social media sites and for many brought back memories from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf. That spill killed 11 people and was ranked as the biggest marine disaster in U.S. history.

According to Reuters, the Pemex company has experienced several accidents in the past including a blast at the company's headquarters two years ago that killed 37 people and a fire at a natural gas facility a year before that.

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