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Search for missing worker ends after oil rig explosion

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HOUSTON (FOX 26) -

The owner of the oil platform that caught fire last week is no longer looking for a missing worker.

Houston-based Black Elk Energy called of the search for Jerome Malagapo of the Philippines. Last Friday, the platform caught fire off the coast of Louisiana.

Rescuers found the body of another missing worker the next day. Four others were burned.

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