A Turkish frigate was mobilized to assist the victims of this shipwreck.
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Turkish Ministry of Interior / TAS / SIPA
A freighter belonging to a Ukrainian company was wrecked this Sunday in the Black Sea, off Turkey.
Turkish authorities announced that at least two sailors had died and five others had been rescued.
Ukraine said six people, including five Ukrainians, had been hospitalized.
"Their condition is satisfactory," the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
A Turkish frigate had been mobilized to bring them assistance.
A Palau-flagged dry cargo ship sank off the coast of Turkey's Black Sea province of Bartın on January 17.
Rescue workers managed to save six crew members and reached the body of one other on the Arvin, which sank off the coast of Bartın province, said Bartın Governor Sinan Güner pic.twitter.com/eXSz0dJPp2
- focusea (@focuseatv) January 18, 2021
Complicated rescue operations
The bulk carrier Arvin flew the flag of Palau, a small archipelago in the Pacific.
According to Sinan Güner, the governor of Bartin province located in the north of Turkey, this ship linked Georgia to Bulgaria with 13 people among the crew.
Also according to Sinan Güner, the freighter was wrecked due to bad weather conditions.
These have also complicated rescue operations.
Wind gusts and snow showers
Strong gusts of wind and flurries occurred in the area where the boat sank on Sunday.
This will reduce visibility and make it more difficult to maneuver the boats.
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January 2019, six sailors were killed in the sinking of a boat flying the Panamanian flag in the Black Sea off Turkey.
Two years earlier, a Russian spy ship had sunk in the same area, but all crew members had survived.
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