One Crew Dead and 11 Are Missing After Turkish Cargo Ship Sinks in Black Sea in Severe Storms

One Crew Dead and 11 Are Missing After Turkish Cargo Ship Sinks in Black Sea in Severe Storms
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ANKARA, Turkey—Turkish rescuers on Monday recovered the body of a crew member of a cargo ship that sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast in severe storms, officials said. Eleven other crew were reported missing.

The Turkish-flagged Kafkametler sank on Sunday after hitting a breakwater outside the harbor off the town of Eregli, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of Istanbul. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the vessel, which was on its way to the western Turkish port of Izmir, lashed into the breakwater several times before it sank.