Storms Hit Turkey Coast, Crew from Boat Goes Missing

Devastating news come from Turkey as the killer storms hit the country at the coast of Istanbul. As per recent reports, a boat sank off the coast in Istanbul after it was hit by very vigorous storm and nine crew member of the boast are missing, as of now. Rescue operations are on at the site.

In another incident, the rescue boat struck into the rocks on the Sile coast in Turkey which led to death of two people while three other are reported missing. The rescue workers are yet involved in saving 14 sailors on another cargo vessel which has undergone failure in its engine after the storm hit.

The coast guard has said that about four deaths were reported in another incident in which boat turned upside down in water, while 12 people from the boat are missing since then. Since the storms have hit, only three crew members have been rescued successfully.

Sile is about 25 miles from Bosphorous Strait and lies towards the east of its northern end. The vessel that sank in the Black Sea on Tuesday was Volgo Balt 199 owned by the Solna Maritime Company, which carried 11 Ukrainians and one Russian. It was exporting coal from Russia to Turkey.

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