YAOUNDE ? An oil tanker flying the Ghanaian flag capsized overnight off the coast of Cameroon and caught fire, Cameroonian gendarmes said Thursday, adding that they had found no bodies.

The ship ran into trouble off Debufcha, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the southwestern town of Limbe, for unknown reasons, said chief adjutant Elie Mbape of the Idenau gendarmerie brigade.

The vessel "began to burn straight away" and was still on fire on Thursday afternoon, Mbape said. No bodies were found by the naval, gendarmerie and police teams sent to the wreck.

The captain of the boat was a Ghanaian, Mbape said, adding that the ship's log "shows that it made a delivery of 14,000 liters of fuel before the accident."

There were no immediate further details about the vessel, the whereabouts of its crew and its cargo.