Cargo ship sinks off Black Sea, 3 Syrians missing
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A cargo ship that was sailing under the Tanzanian flag sank on Saturday off the Black Sea with 11 Syrian and Egyptian sailors on board.
The ship sank off 26 nautical miles off the Romanian town of Sfantu Gheorghe in the Danube delta, officials said in a statement.
Nine Syrian and two Egyptian sailors were on board when the ship sank off the Romanian coast.
Romanian rescue team were searching for three Syrians who went missing. The ship was sailing under the Tanzanian flag.
Eight sailors were rescued by one of the nearby commercial vessels, while the search for the other three, “all of Syrian nationality”, was continuing, the statement said.
The cause of the accident was unclear.