At least four sailors have died, four were rescued and 10 others remain missing after a cargo ship, a rescue boat and a fishing vessel sank yesterday due to strong storms in the Black Sea near Istanbul’s Şile coast.
The St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged ship Volgo Balt 199, with 11 Ukrainian and one Russian crew member aboard, was sailing to the Turkish port of Antalya from Russiawhen it sank off the coast of Istanbul. The vessel was carrying coal.
Search and rescue teams saved four members of the cargo ship, recovered one body and were searching for seven other crewmen when one of the rescue boats hit rocks and also sank along Şile’s Mendirek shore, killing two of the rescuers, Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters.
Yıldırım said a fisherman whose vessel was accompanying the rescue activity also died.
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