Burning ship carrying Porsches adrift near Azores without crew

None of 22 crew members hurt after vessel with almost 4,000 VW group cars onboard caught fire

A burning container ship carrying almost 4,000 cars - including 1,100 Porsches - has been drifting in the mid-Atlantic after the vessel's 22 crew members were evacuated, the Portuguese navy has said.

The ship Felicity Ace, which was carrying a number of Volkswagen Group vehicles from Germany to the US, caught fire near the Azores on Wednesday evening, a VW spokesperson said on Friday.