3 Syrians dead, 3 missing as Ukraine-bound ship sinks off Turkey's coast
Rescuers are trying to reach three missing crew members of the Joe 2 ship, which had 14 crew on board.
Turkish rescuers recovered three bodies and saved eight crew members of a cargo ship bound for Ukraine that sank near Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT reported. Three more crew members are missing.
The ship sent an SOS signal at 3:47 a.m. local time with 14 crew members on board, Turkey's Coast Guard Command said in a statement. The Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship named Joe 2 was en route to Ukrainian port of Izmail on the Danube River from Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Iskenderun when it sank 22 miles (35 kilometers) off the coast of the resort province of Antalya, the statement said.
The cause of the ship sink was not immediately clear, but the chief prosecutor's office for Kumluca has launched an investigation into the incident.
The vessel was laden with aluminum, according to Turkish media reports.
