Padmesh Prabhune

A Turkish cargo ship, ‘Kafkametler; with 12 crew members on board sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast during a storm on November 19 and two bodies have been found till now.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya stated that storms and flooding across Turkey over the weekend also caused deaths in the southeastern province of Batman, Zonguldak, and Diyarbakir.

According to a report from Reuters, the captain of the Turkish-flagged ship had reported on Sunday morning that the ship was drifting toward a breakwater off Eregli, in northwest Turkey’s Zonguldak province. Contact with the cargo ship, which had 12 Turkish crew members on board, was lost while it was in the southern Black Sea when it submerged off the coast of Zonguldak due to unfavourable weather and sea conditions.

The body of the second crew member of the vessel was discovered on Thursday morning, four days after it sunk, as the hunt was on for 11 other crew members who had gone missing.

The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency Turkish: or AFAD; a governmental disaster management agency operating under the Turkish Ministry, extended condolences to those who had lost loved ones in the unfortunate tragedy, saying that professional teams were still searching for and rescuing the ten persons who had gone missing.

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