The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced the four dead citizens of the country during the emergency in the Black Sea

This was reported in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic.

“As a result of a fire on two ships“ Maestro ”and“ Kandy ”under the flag of Tanzania in the Kerch Strait area, out of 16 of our citizens - crew members - four were killed, eight were saved, the search for four missing people continues,” the text says.

On January 21, in the Kerch Strait area, a fire broke out on two vessels flying the flag of Tanzania, carrying 32 people.

A criminal case has been initiated into the incident.