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Four missing after freighter sinks in Black Sea
Oct 11, 2010, 11:47 GMT
Kiev - Ukrainian rescue teams were searching for four sailors in the Black Sea after a freighter sank in storms, officials from the Ministry of Emergency Situations said Monday.
The Mongolia-flagged vessel with Russian and Ukrainian crew had been passing through the Kerch Strait separating Russia's Krasnodar province from Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
The cargo ship Vasily had been transporting scrap metal southwards when rough weather and high seas broke it up early Monday morning, the Interfax news agency reported.
Two Ukrainian and one Russian rescue boats operating in the area had pulled eight of the ship's 12-member crew from the water by midday.
The survivors were receiving treatment for exposure in a hospital in the city Feodosia, and were expected to fully recover.
In late 2007, four ships sank and six ran aground in storms in the Kerch Strait, leaving 23 sailors dead resulting in major oil and sulphur spills.
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