Fire broke out on a cruise ship in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing a passenger, injuring 11 other people and damaging some 150 cabins, officials said, according to Associated Press.
The fire-blackened Star Princess, carrying 2,690 passengers and 1,123 crew members, steamed into the port of this city in north-west Jamaica shortly before noon. Firefighters rushed aboard.
The fire apparently started on a balcony of one of the cabins. A cigarette was suspected of causing the fire.
A crew member saw an elderly passenger collapse. The passenger was later declared dead.
The victim was described as an elderly American man. Jamaica’s disaster office said two people remained hospitalized in Montego Bay while two others were being treated in the ship’s clinic.
