The fire of two tankers off the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula has probably cost 20 sailors life. After the recovery of ten bodies, the rescue workers have given up, according to the Russian Maritime authority any hope to find ten missing Crew members alive. The Tanker under the flag of Tanzania burned after 24 hours on Tuesday and got shock page. There is no danger that you will fall, said a spokesman for the Rescue headquarters.
Twelve Sailors were rescued, and should be in the afternoon on the Russian mainland, as the news Agency reported Tass. The fire had been triggered on Monday by an Explosion. The ships had been loaded at the Russian port of Temryuk, on the Azov sea liquid natural gas (LNG). The accident could have occurred, as a fuel between the tankers was transferred.
The crew members were from India and Turkey, is added, according to Tass, an Intern from Libya. The surviving Sailors suffered part of burn injuries and, in part, to hypothermia after her jump into the cold water.
The accident occurred off the South coast of the Crimea at the entrance to the Strait of Kerch. Russia has annexed the Ukrainian Peninsula in 2014. Therefore, the situation is tense in this part of the Black sea. Russian border guards had fired in November, three Ukrainian Navy vessels and crew for alleged violation of the frontier arrested. Ships often have to wait weeks for Passage through the Straits. (dpa)
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